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Jan, 2010

Sign Reversal of Field-Angle Resolved Heat Capacity Oscillations in a Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5 and dx2-y2 Pairing Symmetry

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • K. An
  • ,
  • T. Sakakibara
  • ,
  • R. Settai
  • ,
  • Y. Onuki
  • ,
  • M. Hiragi
  • ,
  • M. Ichioka
  • ,
  • K. Machida

Volume
104
Number
3
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.037002
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

To identify the superconducting gap symmetry in CeCoIn5 (T-c = 2.3 K), we measured the angle-resolved specific heat (C-phi) in a field rotated around the c axis down to a very low temperature, 0.05T(c), and made detailed theoretical calculations. In a field of 1 T, a sign reversal of the fourfold angular oscillation in C-phi was observed at T similar or equal to 0.1T(c) upon entering a quasiclassical regime where the maximum of C-phi corresponds to the antinodal direction, coinciding with the angle-resolved density of states (ADOS) calculation. The C-phi behavior, which exhibits minima along the [110] directions, unambiguously allows us to conclude d(x2-y2) symmetry of this system. The ADOS-quasiclassical region is confined to a narrow T and H domain within T/T-c similar to 0.1 and 1.5 T (0.13H(c2)).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.037002
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https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000274003100043&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.037002
  • ISSN : 0031-9007
  • eISSN : 1079-7114
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000274003100043

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