Hexagonal and square flux line lattices in CeCoIn5.

Autor: Eskildsen MR; DPMC, University of Geneva, 24 Quai E.-Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland. morten.eskildsen@physics.unige.ch, Dewhurst CD, Hoogenboom BW, Petrovic C, Canfield PC
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2003 May 09; Vol. 90 (18), pp. 187001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2003 May 07.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.187001
Abstrakt: Using small-angle neutron scattering, we have imaged the magnetic flux line lattice (FLL) in the d-wave heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5. At low fields we find a hexagonal FLL. Around 0.6 T this undergoes what is most likely a first-order transition to square symmetry, with the nearest neighbors oriented along the gap node directions. This orientation of the square FLL is consistent with theoretical predictions based on the d-wave order parameter symmetry.
Databáze: MEDLINE