Effects of Impurities with Singlet–Triplet Configuration on Multiband Superconductors
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- Mikito Koga
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Masashige Matsumoto
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Hiroaki Kusunose
- Department of Physics, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
説明
Roles of multipole degrees of freedom in multiband superconductors are investigated in a case of impurities whose low-lying states consist of singlet ground and triplet excited states, which is related to the experimental fact that the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ is increased by Pr substitution for La in LaOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$. The most important contribution to the $T_{\rm c}$ increase comes from the inelastic interband scattering of electrons coupled to quadrupole or octupole moments of impurities. It is found that a magnetic field modifies an effective pairing interaction and the scattering anisotropy appears in the field-orientation dependence of the upper critical field $H_{{\rm c}2}$ in the vicinity of $T_{\rm c}$, although a uniaxial anisotropic field is required for experimental detection. This would be proof that the Pr internal degrees of freedom are relevant to the stability of superconductivity in (La$_{1-x}$Pr$_x$)Os$_4$Sb$_{12}$.
10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
収録刊行物
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- Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 80 (6), 064708-, 2011-06-15
Physical Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1360003446870547584
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- NII論文ID
- 210000109057
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- ISSN
- 13474073
- 00319015
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