Resolving the spin and orbital part of the Sr2RuO4 superconducting order parameter

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Stronthium ruthenate (SRO) has long been considered a paradigm for p-wave superconductivity, but recent results have raised important questions in this regard. These include recent SANS experiments by our group [C. Rastovski et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087003 (2013)] that found an intrinsic superconducting anisotropy 3 times greater than the Hc2 anisotropy, and the observation of a first order transition at the upper critical fields for T < 0.8 Tc. Both of these results suggest Pauli limiting in SRO, and are difficult to reconcile with equal spin pairing. However, there is still other compelling evidence for p-wave pairing, and it is therefore important to resolve the nature of the superconducting state in SRO. We propose a continuation of our SANS measurements of the SRO vortex lattice (VL) to provide further information about the order parameter. Two distinct measurements are foreseen:1. High fields studies to investigate possible Pauli paramagnetic effects that would support Pauli limiting.2. T-dependence for different directions of in-plane directions to directly resolve gap nodes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-389
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-389
Provenance
Creator Dewhurst, Charles; De Waard, Elizabeth; Saroni, Jason; White, Jonathan; Eskildsen, Morten Ring; Kuhn, Stephen; Morgenlander, William
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2015
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields