Magnetic-field-induced superconductivity in a cerium heavy fermion antiferromagnet

✍ Scribed by T. Mihalisin; C.L. Lin; J.E. Crow; J. Brooks; G.R. Stewart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Weight: 312 KB
• Volume: 135
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4363
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4363(85)90443-7

✦ Synopsis

We report here on the observation of (1) heavy fermion behavior; (2) antiferromagnetism; and (3) magnetic-field-induced superconductivity in the simple cubic Cu3Au structure compound, CePb 3. The effects of diluting Ce with La and of moving slightly off stoichiometry, i.e. forming samples of CePb~ with x near but not equal to 3, are discussed. The phenomenon of magnetic-field-induced superconductivity is extremely sensitive to these perturbations and has only been observed for pure CePb 3 .