Published October 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of antiferromagnetic ordering on temperature dependent superconducting gap in ErNi2B2C: Laser-photoemission spectroscopy

  • 1. Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581 (Japan)
  • 2. The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530 (Japan)
  • 3. National Institute for Material Research, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047 (Japan)
  • 4. RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5143 (Japan)
  • 5. Beijing Center for Crystal R and D, Chinese Academy of Science Zhongguancun, Beijing 100080 (China)

Description

We have performed temperature (T)-dependent laser-photoemission spectroscopy of antiferromagnetic (AF) superconductor ErNi2B2C to study the electronic structure, especially the effect of AF ordering in T-dependent superconducting (SC) gap. To estimate the values of T-dependent SC gap, we fitted the experimental data by Dynes function having an anisotropic s-wave SC gap. From the fitting results, we find a sudden deviation from the BCS prediction just below TN. This observation can be well explained by the theoretical model, indicating that the origin of anomalous T-dependence is competition between rapid evolution of AF molecular field and SC condensation energy.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2009.05.101

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2009.05.101;
PII
S0921-4534(09)00186-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
469
Journal Issue
15-20
Journal Page Range
p. 928-931
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

Conference

Title
21. international symposium on superconductivity
Acronym
ISS 2008
Dates
27-29 Oct 2008
Place
Tsukuba (Japan)

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