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JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Volume 79, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.79.084705
Keywords
URu2Si2; heavy fermion; unconventional superconductors; superconducting symmetry; lower critical field
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [20102006]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21340099, 22740241] Funding Source: KAKEN
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To investigate a mysterious superconducting state of URu2Si2 embedded in the so-called hidden order state, the lower critical field H-c1 is precisely determined down to 55 mK for H parallel to a and H parallel to c. For this purpose, the positional dependence of the local magnetic induction is measured on ultraclean single crystals (T-c = 1.4 K) with residual resistivity ratio exceeding 700. We find that the temperature dependence of H-c1 significantly differs from that of any other superconductors. The whole H-c1(T) for H parallel to a are well explained by the two superconducting gap structures with line and point nodes, which have been suggested by the recent thermal conductivity and specific heat measurements. On the other hand, for H parallel to c, a change of slope with a distinct kink in H-c1(T), which cannot be accounted for by two gaps, is observed. This behavior for H parallel to c sharply contrasts with the cusp behavior of H-c1(T) associated with a transition into another superconducting phase found in UPt3 and U1-xThxBe13. The observed anomalous low-field diamagnetic response is possibly related to a peculiar vortex dynamics associated with chiral domains due to the multicomponent superconducting order parameter with broken time reversal symmetry.
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