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PHYSICA C-SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 385, Issue 1-2, Pages 205-214Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4534(02)02319-5
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penetration depth; RF field; superconducting energy gap; single crystal
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The low temperature behaviour of the magnetic penetration depth lambda(T) provides a useful probe of the low lying excitations in superconductors and hence of the anisotropy of the superconducting energy gap. In this paper, we will present measurements of the penetration depth in the Meissner state of both single crystal and polycrystalline samples of MgB2, using a very low field RF technique. lambda(T) shows a clear exponential temperature dependence T/T-c less than or similar to 0.2, strongly indicating that this material is fully gapped. Detailed fits to the superfluid density over the full temperature range of our measurements (1 > T/T-c > 0.04) gives strong support for the existence of two distinct superconducting gaps, Delta(s) = 29 K and Delta(b) = 75 K, in agreement with recent theoretical predictions and other probes. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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