Possible Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Broken Superconductivity in Locally Non-Centrosymmetric SrPtAs

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Recently, we performed muSR measurements at the continuous muon source at PSI on the magnetic and superconducting properties of locally non-centrosymmetric SrPtAs. We find a very weak increase of the ZF muSR relaxation rate below the superconducting Tc indicating the presence of spontaneous static magnetic fields. This finding, if reproduced independently, would imply that the superconducting state of SrPtAs breaks time-reversal symmetry (TRS). The superfluid density as determined by transverse field muSR is exponentially flat approaching T=0K proving the absence of extended nodes in the gap function. These experimental results would enable us to identify the complex d + id (chiral d-wave) order parameter as the most probable pairing state in SrPtAs allowed by symmetry.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090168
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090168
Provenance
Creator Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Professor Elvezio Morenzoni; Dr Hubertus Luetkens; Mr Felix Brückner
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-02-25T17:51:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-02-28T08:19:27Z