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Jul, 2012

Comparative photoemission studies on the superconducting gap of the filled skutterudite superconductors LaPt4Ge12 and PrPt4Ge12

PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • Yoshiaki Nakamura
  • ,
  • Hiroyuki Okazaki
  • ,
  • Rikiya Yoshida
  • ,
  • Takanori Wakita
  • ,
  • Hiroyuki Takeya
  • ,
  • Kazuto Hirata
  • ,
  • Masaaki Hirai
  • ,
  • Yuji Muraoka
  • ,
  • Takayoshi Yokoya

Volume
86
Number
1
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014521
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

We performed a comparative study of the superconducting gap in the new filled skutterudite superconductors LaPt4Ge12 and PrPt4Ge12 using high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy. We succeeded in observing spectral changes across T-c that reflect the opening of the superconducting gap in both compounds and also in observing a noticeable difference in their respective superconducting spectral shapes near the Fermi level, pointing toward a more complex superconducting gap structure in PrPt4Ge12. In addition, we found that the two-gap model is more suitable for describing the superconducting-state spectrum of PrPt4Ge12 than the single-isotropic-gap and single-anisotropic-gap models, which suggests an explanation that multiband effects may possibly induce the anomalous superconducting properties of PrPt4Ge12.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014521
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000306922200007&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014521
  • ISSN : 1098-0121
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000306922200007

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