Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-04-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Scientific paper
Roles of multipole degrees of freedom in multiband superconductors are investigated in a case of impurities whose low-lying states consist of singlet ground and triplet excited states, which is related to the experimental fact that the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ is increased by Pr substitution for La in LaOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$. The most important contribution to the $T_{\rm c}$ increase comes from the inelastic interband scattering of electrons coupled to quadrupole or octupole moments of impurities. It is found that a magnetic field modifies an effective pairing interaction and the scattering anisotropy appears in the field-orientation dependence of the upper critical field $H_{{\rm c}2}$ in the vicinity of $T_{\rm c}$, although a uniaxial anisotropic field is required for experimental detection. This would be proof that the Pr internal degrees of freedom are relevant to the stability of superconductivity in (La$_{1-x}$Pr$_x$)Os$_4$Sb$_{12}$.
Koga Mikito
Kusunose Hiroaki
Matsumoto Masashige
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