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Dec, 2012

Field dependence of the specific heat in a heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn5

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Yuya Aoki
  • ,
  • Shunichiro Kittaka
  • ,
  • Toshiro Sakakibara
  • ,
  • Akito Sakai
  • ,
  • Satoru Nakatsuji
  • ,
  • Yasumasa Tsutsumi
  • ,
  • Masanori Ichioka
  • ,
  • Kazushige Machida

Volume
81
Number
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJS.81SB.SB014
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

We investigated temperature, field, and field-orientation dependences of the specific heat of CeIrIn5. The upper critical field H-c2 was determined down to 80 mK from the specific heat measurements and exhibits a slight suppression at low temperatures. We revealed that the specific heat at 80 mK increases proportional to the square root of H up to nearly H-c2 for both H parallel to ab and H parallel to c, implying the presence of line nodes and a weak contribution of the Pauli paramagnetic pair-breaking effect. Furthermore, we revealed that the specific heat shows a fourfold oscillation under a rotating magnetic field in the ab plane. This result indicates that CeIrIn5 has fourfold symmetry around the c axis in its gap amplitude.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJS.81SB.SB014
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000208846500015&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJS.81SB.SB014
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000208846500015

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