Order parameter of MgB_2: a fully gapped superconductor

Details Order parameter of MgB_2: a fully gapped superconductor Order parameter of MgB_2: a fully gapped superconductor

2001-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104574v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 5 figures; revised text and figures; references updated, Phys. Rev. Lett., in press

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.167003

We have measured the low-temperature specific heat C(T) for polycrystalline MgB_2 prepared by high pressure synthesis. C(T) below 10 K vanishes exponentially, which unambiguously indicates a fully opened superconducting energy gap. However, this gap is found to be too small to account for Tc of MgB_2. Together with the small specific heat jump DeltaC/gamma_nTc=1.13, scenarios like anisotropic s-wave or multi-component order parameter are called for. The magnetic field dependence of gamma(H) is neither linear for a fully gapped s-wave superconductor nor H^1/2 for nodal order parameter. It seems that this intriguing behavior of gamma(H) is associated with the intrinsic electronic properties other than flux pinning.

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