Superconductivity in Actinide Materials

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2005-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509078v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

to appear in Advances in Actinide Science (Royal Society of Chemistry)

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Actinide materials play a special role in condensed matter physics, spanning behaviours of itinerant d-electron and localized 4f-electron materials. An intermediate state, found notably in Pu-based materials whose 5f electrons are neither fully localized nor itinerant, is particularly challenging to understand. Superconductivity appearing in some actinide materials provides clues to the nature of the 5f electrons. PuCoGa5, the first Pu-based superconductor, is superconducting at Tc=18.5 K. This relatively high Tc is unprecedented in any other actinide system but is typical of itinerant electron compounds in which superconductivity is mediated by phonons. Recent studies of PuCoGa5 show that its superconductivity is not phonon-mediated; rather, these experiments are consistent with superconductivity produced by antiferromagnetic fluctuations of nearly localized 5f electrons. Similarities of PuCoGa5 with the superconducting and normal states of isostructural 4f analogues CeMIn5 (M=Co, Rh, Ir) and high-Tc cuprates enable new perspectives on the 5f electrons of Pu.

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