Unconventional heavy-fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd 5Al 2

Dai Aoki; Yoshinori Haga; Tatsuma D. Matsuda; Naoyuki Tateiwa; Shugo Ikeda; Yoshiya Homma; Hironori Sakai; Yoshinobu Shiokawa; Etsuji Yamamoto; Akio Nakamura; Rikio Settai; Yoshichika Onuki

doi:10.1143/JPSJ.76.063701

Unconventional heavy-fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd ₅Al ₂

Dai Aoki, Yoshinori Haga, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Naoyuki Tateiwa, Shugo Ikeda, Yoshiya Homma, Hironori Sakai, Yoshinobu Shiokawa, Etsuji Yamamoto, Akio Nakamura, Rikio Settai, Yoshichika Onuki

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Abstract

We succeeded in growing a new transuranium compound NpPd ₅Al ₂ with the tetragonal crystal structure by the Pb-flux method, and measured the electrical resistivity, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and magnetization. NpPd ₅Al ₂ is found to be a paramagnetic heavy-fermion superconductor with strong coupling ΔC=γT _c = 2:33 [T _c = 4:9K and γ = 200 mJ/(K ²·mol)]. The upper critical field H _c2 at 0K is large and highly anisotropic: H _c2(0) = 37 kOe for H ∥ [100] and H _c2(0) = 143 kOe for H ∥ [001]. H _c2 is found to be strongly suppressed by the magnetic field, and the magnetization curve indicates a step-like increase at H _c2, which are due to the paramagnetic effect. The low-temperature electronic specific heat approximately follows the T ³-dependence, indicating the existence of point nodes in the energy gap. The d-wave superconductivity with point nodes is most likely realized in this compound.

Original language	English
Article number	063701
Journal	journal of the physical society of japan
Volume	76
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.76.063701
Publication status	Published - 2007 Jun

Keywords

Heavy-fermion superconductivity
Non-Fermi liquid
NpPd Al
Paramagnetic effect

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