An investigation of anti-pressure effect on the time reversal symmetry breaking in LaNiC2

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In this proposal we propose to continue our investigation into the LaNiC2 non-centrosymmetric superconductors. Previously, we have shown that in this system time reversal symmetry is broken with the onset of superconductivity and that the superconducting ground state is made up of both singlet and triplet states. Doping the Ni sites with Cu increases the superconducting transition temperature from 2.7K to 4.2K, whilst doping La with Th increases the transition temperature to 8K. Such doping might be expected to increase disorder and therefore have a detrimental effect on the triplet superconductivity. We therefore wish to take this unique opportunity to investigate systematically the effects of doping (and corresponding lattice expansion) on triplet superconductivity and using uSR, and hence we have requested 7 days of beamtime on the MuSR spectrometer.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24078013
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24078013
Provenance
Creator Dr Jorge Quintanilla; Dr Aidy Hillier; Mr Kevin Ellis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-11-12T14:31:47Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-19T06:34:12Z