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On Superconducting Double Transition in PrOs_4_Sb_12

Superconductivity 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Superconducting double transition in PrOs_4_Sb_12 is investigated by analyzing the anisotropy of the upper critical field H_c2 in the ab-plane, and the possible pairing state is discussed. When mixing due to gradient coupling is active, the twofold-symmetric component is necessarily induced in the fourfold symmetric phase, leading to the twofold oscillation of H_c2, contrary to the experimental result. To avoid the mixing effect, the weak spin-orbit coupling triplet pairing state is considered as a likely pairing function, where time-reversal symmetry is broken.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304538,
  title  = {On Superconducting Double Transition in PrOs_4_Sb_12},
  author = {Masanori Ichioka and Noriyuki Nakai and Kazushige Machida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304538},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn

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