Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2005-01-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
16 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.72.024539
The field-angle dependent specific heat and thermal conductivity in the vortex phase of UPd_2Al_3 is studied using the Doppler shift approximation for the low energy quasiparticle excitations. We first give a concise presentation of the calculation procedure of magnetothermal properties with vortex and FS averages performed numerically. The comparison of calculated field-angle oscillations and the experimental results obtained previously leads to a strong reduction of the possible SC candidate states in UPd_2Al_3. The possible SC gap functions have node lines in hexagonal symmetry planes containing either the zone center or the AF zone boundary along c. Node lines in non-symmetry planes can be excluded. We also calculate the field and temperature dependence of field-angular oscillation amplitudes. We show that the observed nonmonotonic field dependence and sign reversal of the oscillation amplitude is due to small deviations from unitary scattering.
Izawa Koichi
Matsuda Yuichi
Thalmeier Peter
Watanabe Ta.
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