Multiband Superconductivity with Unexpected Deficiency of Nodal Quasiparticles in
- 12 February 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 112 (6) , 067002
Abstract
Superconductivity in the heavy-fermion compound is a prototypical example of Cooper pairs formed by strongly correlated electrons. For more than 30 years, it has been believed to arise from nodal -wave pairing mediated by a magnetic glue. Here, we report a detailed study of the specific heat and magnetization at low temperatures for a high-quality single crystal. Unexpectedly, the specific-heat measurements exhibit exponential decay with a two-gap feature in its temperature dependence, along with a linear dependence as a function of magnetic field and the absence of oscillations in the field angle, reminiscent of multiband full-gap superconductivity. In addition, we find anomalous behavior at high fields, attributed to a strong Pauli paramagnetic effect. A low quasiparticle density of states at low energies with a multiband Fermi-surface topology would open a new door into electron pairing in .
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