POSSIBLE FORMATION OF A NONUNIFORM SUPERCONDUCTING STATE IN THE HEAVY-FERMION COMPOUND UPD2AL3

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作者
GLOOS, K
MODLER, R
SCHIMANSKI, H
BREDL, CD
GEIBEL, C
STEGLICH, F
BUZDIN, AI
SATO, N
KOMATSUBARA, T
机构
[1] CEN,DEPT RECH FONDAMENTALE MAT CONDENSEE,F-38041 GRENOBLE,FRANCE
[2] TOHOKU UNIV,DEPT PHYS,SENDAI,MIYAGI 980,JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.501
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Thermal expansion of magnetostriction measurements on single crystalline UPd2Al3, a very clean, strongly Pauli-limited, heavy-fermion superconductor (T(c) congruent-to 1.82 K), have been utilized to establish a first-order transition at T less-than-or-equal-to T congruent-to 1.5 K and B < B(c2)(T). This is ascribed to the hitherto unobserved formation of a nonuniform superconducting state, as predicted theoretically in 1963.
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