Probing the superconducting ground state of the Heusler superconductors

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This proposal plans to investigate the superconducting ground state of the Heusler superconductors with a superconducting transition of ~2K. Heusler compounds have attracted a great deal of interest in spintronics as these materials are considered to be half metals, that is only electrons which have one spin direction have a finite density of states at the Fermi surface. The exchange splitting of the d-electron states makes these Heusler superconductors an attractive prospect for unconventional superconductivity. Heat capacity measurements have shown that these compounds are weakly coupled BCS superconductors. Therefore, it is proposed to use the MuSR spectrometer, for 8 days, in both longitudinal and transverse modes to investigate the superconducting ground state of ZrNi2Ga and NbNi2Ga.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081684
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081684
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Creator Dr Aidy Hillier
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-03-21T10:14:01Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-03-24T11:27:00Z