ANISOTROPY OF THE UPPER CRITICAL-FIELD IN A HEAVY-FERMION SUPERCONDUCTOR

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作者
CHOI, CH [1 ]
SAULS, JA [1 ]
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[1] NORTHWESTERN UNIV, DEPT PHYS & ASTRON, EVANSTON, IL 60208 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevB.48.13684
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T [工业技术];
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We study the upper critical field for various possible order parameters of a heavy-fermion superconductor. We pay particular attention to the question of how the anisotropy of the upper critical field changes by effects of paramagnetism, impurity scattering, and Fermi-surface anisotropy in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. The paramagnetic limit can have a dramatic effect on the anisotropy in odd-parity superconductors, and provide important information on the symmetry of underlying order parameters. We also discuss the effect of impurity scattering.
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