Dec, 2012
Field dependence of the specific heat in a heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn5
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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- 81
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- English
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- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1143/JPSJS.81SB.SB014
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- 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 : 10.1143/JPSJS.81SB.SB014
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000208846500015