mSR Studies of the Flux Vortex Phases in a BEDT-TTF Superconductor

FL Prat; Stephen Leslie Lee; CM Aegerter; C Ager; SH Lloyd; SJ Bludell; FY Ogrin; EM Forgan; H Keller; W Hayes

mSR Studies of the Flux Vortex Phases in a BEDT-TTF Superconductor

FL Prat, Stephen Leslie Lee, CM Aegerter, C Ager, SH Lloyd, SJ Bludell, FY Ogrin, EM Forgan, H Keller, W Hayes

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Abstract

mu SR has been used to probe the structure and stability of the flux vortex array in the organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)Cu(SCN)(2), At temperatures below 5 K and fields below 5 mT the internal field distribution is found to closely match that expected for a three dimensional (3D) Abrikosov flux line lattice (FLL). Careful studies in this 3D-FLL regime have enabled an improved measurement of the temperature dependence of the superconducting penetration depth to be made. A linear term is found in the temperature dependence of the penetration depth, suggesting the presence of line nodes in the gap parameter and d-wave pairing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1015
Number of pages	1015
Journal	Synthetic Metals
Volume	120
Issue number	1-3
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2001

Keywords

organic superconductors
superconducting phase transitions
mu SR
SPIN ROTATION
VORTICES

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mSR Studies of the Flux Vortex Phases in a BEDT-TTF Superconductor

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