LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Evidence for the coexistence of time-reversal symmetry breaking and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-like superconductivity in La7Pd3

Photo from wikipedia

Time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) with a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) -like superconductivity occurs in a small, but growing number of noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials, although the mechanism is poorly understood. We present heat… Click to show full abstract

Time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) with a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) -like superconductivity occurs in a small, but growing number of noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials, although the mechanism is poorly understood. We present heat capacity, magnetization, resistivity, and muon spin resonance/relaxation ($\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$) measurements on polycrystalline samples of NCS ${\mathrm{La}}_{7}{\mathrm{Pd}}_{3}$. Transverse-field $\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$ and heat capacity data show ${\mathrm{La}}_{7}{\mathrm{Pd}}_{3}$ is a type-II superconductor with a BCS-like gap structure, while zero-field $\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$ results provide evidence of TRSB. We discuss the implications of these results for both the ${\mathrm{La}}_{7}{X}_{3}$ (where $X=$ Ni, Pd, Rh, Ir) group of superconductors and other CS and NCS superconductors for which TRSB has been observed.

Keywords: cooper schrieffer; reversal symmetry; symmetry breaking; bardeen cooper; time reversal; like superconductivity

Journal Title: Physical Review B
Year Published: 2021

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.