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Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2)
The nature of the pairing symmetry of the first heavy fermion superconductor CeCu(2)Si(2) has recently become the subject of controversy. While CeCu(2)Si(2) was generally believed to be a [Formula: see text]-wave superconductor, recent low-temperature specific heat measurements showed evidence for f...
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National Academy of Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003525/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720291115 |
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author | Pang, Guiming Smidman, Michael Zhang, Jinglei Jiao, Lin Weng, Zongfa Nica, Emilian M. Chen, Ye Jiang, Wenbing Zhang, Yongjun Xie, Wu Jeevan, Hirale S. Lee, Hanoh Gegenwart, Philipp Steglich, Frank Si, Qimiao Yuan, Huiqiu |
author_facet | Pang, Guiming Smidman, Michael Zhang, Jinglei Jiao, Lin Weng, Zongfa Nica, Emilian M. Chen, Ye Jiang, Wenbing Zhang, Yongjun Xie, Wu Jeevan, Hirale S. Lee, Hanoh Gegenwart, Philipp Steglich, Frank Si, Qimiao Yuan, Huiqiu |
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description | The nature of the pairing symmetry of the first heavy fermion superconductor CeCu(2)Si(2) has recently become the subject of controversy. While CeCu(2)Si(2) was generally believed to be a [Formula: see text]-wave superconductor, recent low-temperature specific heat measurements showed evidence for fully gapped superconductivity, contrary to the nodal behavior inferred from earlier results. Here, we report London penetration depth measurements, which also reveal fully gapped behavior at very low temperatures. To explain these seemingly conflicting results, we propose a fully gapped [Formula: see text] band-mixing pairing state for CeCu(2)Si(2), which yields very good fits to both the superfluid density and specific heat, as well as accounting for a sign change of the superconducting order parameter, as previously concluded from inelastic neutron scattering results. |
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spelling | pubmed-60035252018-06-18 Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) Pang, Guiming Smidman, Michael Zhang, Jinglei Jiao, Lin Weng, Zongfa Nica, Emilian M. Chen, Ye Jiang, Wenbing Zhang, Yongjun Xie, Wu Jeevan, Hirale S. Lee, Hanoh Gegenwart, Philipp Steglich, Frank Si, Qimiao Yuan, Huiqiu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Physical Sciences The nature of the pairing symmetry of the first heavy fermion superconductor CeCu(2)Si(2) has recently become the subject of controversy. While CeCu(2)Si(2) was generally believed to be a [Formula: see text]-wave superconductor, recent low-temperature specific heat measurements showed evidence for fully gapped superconductivity, contrary to the nodal behavior inferred from earlier results. Here, we report London penetration depth measurements, which also reveal fully gapped behavior at very low temperatures. To explain these seemingly conflicting results, we propose a fully gapped [Formula: see text] band-mixing pairing state for CeCu(2)Si(2), which yields very good fits to both the superfluid density and specific heat, as well as accounting for a sign change of the superconducting order parameter, as previously concluded from inelastic neutron scattering results. National Academy of Sciences 2018-05-22 2018-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6003525/ /pubmed/29739886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720291115 Text en Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Physical Sciences Pang, Guiming Smidman, Michael Zhang, Jinglei Jiao, Lin Weng, Zongfa Nica, Emilian M. Chen, Ye Jiang, Wenbing Zhang, Yongjun Xie, Wu Jeevan, Hirale S. Lee, Hanoh Gegenwart, Philipp Steglich, Frank Si, Qimiao Yuan, Huiqiu Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title | Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title_full | Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title_fullStr | Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title_full_unstemmed | Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title_short | Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu(2)Si(2) |
title_sort | fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in cecu(2)si(2) |
topic | Physical Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003525/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720291115 |
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