Emergence of superconductivity in the canonical heavy-electron metal YbRh₂Si₂

Autor: Erwin, Schuberth, Marc, Tippmann, Lucia, Steinke, Stefan, Lausberg, Alexander, Steppke, Manuel, Brando, Cornelius, Krellner, Christoph, Geibel, Rong, Yu, Qimiao, Si, Frank, Steglich
Rok vydání: 2015
Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 351(6272)
ISSN: 1095-9203
Popis: The smooth disappearance of antiferromagnetic order in strongly correlated metals commonly furnishes the development of unconventional superconductivity. The canonical heavy-electron compound YbRh2Si2 seems to represent an apparent exception from this quantum critical paradigm in that it is not a superconductor at temperature T ≥ 10 millikelvin (mK). Here we report magnetic and calorimetric measurements on YbRh2Si2, down to temperatures as low as T ≈ 1 mK. The data reveal the development of nuclear antiferromagnetic order slightly above 2 mK and of heavy-electron superconductivity almost concomitantly with this order. Our results demonstrate that superconductivity in the vicinity of quantum criticality is a general phenomenon.
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