Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2005-04-14
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197002 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
5pages, 3figures, accpted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.197002
The superconducting gap structure of recently discovered heavy fermion CePt_3Si without spatial inversion symmetry was investigated by thermal transport measurements down to 40 mK. In zero field a residual T-linear term was clearly resolved as T-> 0, with a magnitude in good agreement with the value expected for a residual normal fluid with a nodal gap structure, together with a T^2-dependence at high temperatures. With an applied magnetic fields, the thermal conductivity grows rapidly, in dramatic contrast to fully gapped superconductors, and exhibits one-parameter scaling with T/sqrt{H}. These results place an important constraint on the order parameter symmetry, that is CePt_3Si is most likely to have line nodes.
Behnia Kamran
Izawa Koichi
Kasahara Yasushi
Matsuda Yuichi
Onuki Yoshichika
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