Hump Structure below Tc in the thermal conductivity of MgB2 superconductor

Details Hump Structure below Tc in the thermal conductivity of MgB2 superconductor Hump Structure below Tc in the thermal conductivity of MgB2 superconductor

2008-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3039v2

Physica C 469, 106-110 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

18 pages of Text + Figs: comments welcome (awana@mail.nplindia.ernet.in)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physc.2008.12.005

A reasonable cause of absence of hump structure in thermal conductivity of MgB2 below the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) lies in the appearance of multigap structure. The gaps of lower magnitude can be suppressed by defects so that this system becomes effectively a single gap superconductor. When such a situation is created, it is hoped that thermal conductivity will show hump below Tc. Proceeding along these lines, a sample of MgB2 with a relatively higher residual resistivity (33.3 mili-Ohm-cm)has been found to show a hump structure below Tc. The actual electronic thermal conductivity kel of this sample is less than that expected from the Wiedeman- Franz law by more than a factor of 2.6 in the considered temperature range. Modifying the Wiedeman- Franz law for the electronic contribution by replacing the Lorenz number by an effective Lorenz number Leff (L0) we have obtained two sets of kel, namely those with Leff = 0.1L0 and 0.2L0. Corresponding to these two sets of kel, two sets of the phonon thermal conductivity kph are obtained. kph has been analyzed in terms of an extended Bardeen- Rickayzen- Tewordt theory. The main result of this analysis is that the hump structure corresponds to a gap ratio of 3.5, and that large electron-point defect scattering is the main source of drastic reduction of the electronic thermal conductivity from that given by the usual Wiedeman- Franz law.

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