Time reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in (Pr,La)Pt4Ge12

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The unconventional filled skutterudite superconductor, PrPt4Ge12(Tc ~ 7.9 K), was recently discovered, for which zero field muon spin relaxation (ZF-MuSR) experiments reveal that timereversal symmetry (TRS) breaking occurs below Tc. The origin of the TRS breaking is not clear. ZF-MuSR experiments in the (Pr,Ce)Pt4Ge12 alloy series reveal that Pr-Pr intersite interactions are important for the broken TRS, but pair-breaking by Cedoping suppresses superconductivity. To shed more light on the TRS breaking superconductivity in PrPt4Ge12, it would be inportant to perform a non-pair-breaking doping study. We propose to use ZF-MuSR to investigate how the TRS-breaking superconductivity of PrPt4Ge12 evolves with La substitution, while Tc of the end compounds PrPt4Ge12 and LaPt4Ge12 are very close.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.63527422
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/63527422
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Creator Mr Zhaofeng Ding; Dr Lei Shu; Dr Aidy Hillier; Mr Cheng Tan; Mr Jian Zhang; Dr Kevin Huang
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-09-16T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-09-21T08:30:00Z