Muon spin rotation measurements of the superfluid density in fresh and aged superconducting PuCoGa$_5$

Details Muon spin rotation measurements of the superfluid density in fresh and aged superconducting PuCoGa$_5$ Muon spin rotation measurements of the superfluid density in fresh and aged superconducting PuCoGa$_5$

2007-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/0706.4367v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

11 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.064504

We have measured the temperature dependence and magnitude of the superfluid density $\rho_{\rm s}(T)$ via the magnetic field penetration depth $\lambda(T)$ in PuCoGa$_5$ (nominal critical temperature $T_{c0} = 18.5$ K) using the muon spin rotation technique in order to investigate the symmetry of the order parameter, and to study the effects of aging on the superconducting properties of a radioactive material. The same single crystals were measured after 25 days ($T_c = 18.25$ K) and 400 days ($T_c = 15.0$ K) of aging at room temperature. The temperature dependence of the superfluid density is well described in both materials by a model using d-wave gap symmetry. The magnitude of the muon spin relaxation rate $\sigma$ in the aged sample, $\sigma\propto 1/\lambda^2\propto\rho_s/m^*$, where $m^*$ is the effective mass, is reduced by about 70% compared to fresh sample. This indicates that the scattering from self-irradiation induced defects is not in the limit of the conventional Abrikosov-Gor'kov pair-breaking theory, but rather in the limit of short coherence length (about 2 nm in PuCoGa$_5$) superconductivity.

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