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Physical properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor Ru$_7$B$_3$

Superconductivity 2009-04-27 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Transition metal boride Ru7_7B3_3 was found to be a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with TCT_{C} equal to 3.3 K. Superconducting and normal state properties of Ru7_7B3_3 were determined by a self-consistent analysis through resistivity(ρxx\rho_{xx} and ρxy\rho_{xy}), specific heat, lower critical field measurement and electronic band structure calculation. It is found that Ru7_7B3_3 belongs to an s-wave dominated single band superconductor with energy gap 0.5 meV and could be categorized into type II superconductor with weak electron-phonon coupling. Unusual 'kink' feature is clearly observed in field-broadening resistivity curves, suggesting the possible mixture of spin triplet induced by the lattice without inversion symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2252,
  title  = {Physical properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor Ru$_7$B$_3$},
  author = {Lei Fang and Huan Yang and Xiyu Zhu and Gang Mu and Zhao-Sheng Wang and Lei Shan and Cong Ren and Hai-Hu Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2252},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 16 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev. B