Recent small angle neutron scattering experiments under an external field H by Kleiman et al. reveal that in UPt3 a distorted vortex lattice is stabilized and the rhombic unit cell angle ct(H) varies continuously with increasing H applied perpendicular to the hexagonal c-axis. To understand this int
Superconducting double transition in UPt3 and possible nontrivial vortex structures
โ Scribed by Kazushige Machida; Masa-aki Ozaki; Toshimitsu Fujita; Tetsuo Ohmi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Volume
- 186-188
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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โฆ Synopsis
To understand the double superconducting (SC) transitions and the isotropy of the phase diagram H vs T in a heavy Fermion compound UPh, we develop a scenario based on the one-dimensional representation (ID-REP) with odd-parity in the case of weak spin-orbit coupling. A symmetry breaking field due to the antiferromagnetism (T N = 5 K) lifts the spin space degeneracy to split T c. The 1D-REP scenario explains the experiments better than the previous 2D-REP scenario. A nontrivial vortex is predicted to appear at lower fields.
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