HUND RULE THEORY FOR HEAVY-FERMION SUPERCONDUCTORS

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NORMAN, MR
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[1] Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.2077
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O4 [物理学];
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In this paper, a multiorbital generalization of standard spin fluctuation theory is considered within an on-site approximation. For f electrons, this theory leads to an instability for a superconducting pair state which obeys Hund's rules, with L = 5, S = 1, and J = 4. The degeneracy of this state is broken by crystalline effects, and realistic calculations for UPt3 find a pair state with GAMMA6- (E2u) symmetry, consistent with current experimental constraints.
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