Hybrid gap structure in the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn$_5$

Details Hybrid gap structure in the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn$_5$ Hybrid gap structure in the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn$_5$

2006-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610052v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187004 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.187004

The thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn$_5$ was measured as a function of temperature down to $T_c$/8, for current directions perpendicular ($J \parallel a$) and parallel ($J \parallel c$) to the tetragonal c axis. For $J \parallel a$, a sizable residual linear term $\kappa_0 / T$ is observed, as previously, which confirms the presence of line nodes in the superconducting gap. For $J \parallel c$, on the other hand, $\kappa / T \to 0$ as $T \to 0$. The resulting precipitous decline in the anisotropy ratio $\kappa_c / \kappa_a$ at low temperature rules out a gap structure with line nodes running along the c-axis, such as the d-wave state favoured for CeCoIn$_5$, and instead points to a hybrid gap of $E_g$ symmetry. It therefore appears that two distinct superconducting states are realized in the Ce$M$In$_5$ family.

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