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arXiv 1107.3082cond-mat.supr-concond-mat.str-el
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重费米子超导体UPt $_3$的双重自发对称性破缺

Twofold spontaneous symmetry breaking in a heavy fermion superconductor UPt$_3$

Y. Machida, A. Itoh, Y. So, K. Izawa, Y. Haga, E. Yamamoto, N. Kimura, Y. Onuki, Y. Tsutsumi, K. Machida

摘要:

测量了重费米子超导体UPt $_3$在低温和磁场作用下在三个不同超导相(A、B和C相)的场取向相关的热导率。在C相中,基底面内热导率的显著的双重振荡被解析,反映了沿a轴具有一条节点线的超导能隙结构。此外,我们发现一个突然消失的振荡跨越过渡到B相,作为一个明确的迹象,间隙对称性的变化。我们还确定了额外的两个线节点下方和上方的赤道在B和C阶段。从这些结果与对称性的考虑,UPt $_3$的间隙功能最终确定为一个$E_{1u}$表示,其特征在于由两个线节点在热带和点节点在极点的组合。

英文摘要:

The field-orientation dependent thermal conductivity of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt$_3$ was measured down to very low temperatures and under magnetic fields throughout three distinct superconducting phases: A, B, and C phases. In the C phase, a striking twofold oscillation of the thermal conductivity within the basal plane is resolved reflecting the superconducting gap structure with a line of node along the a axis. Moreover, we find an abrupt vanishing of the oscillation across a transition to the B phase, as a clear indication of a change of gap symmetries. We also identify extra two line nodes below and above the equator in both B and C phases. From these results together with the symmetry consideration, the gap function of UPt$_3$ is conclusively determined as a $E_{1u}$ representation characterized by a combination of two line nodes at the tropics and point nodes at the poles.

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