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Relation between Superconducting Gap Minima and Nesting Vector in YNi2B2C

Superconductivity 2008-12-03 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We have performed ultrahigh-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to directly observe the large superconducting (SC) gap anisotropy (GA) of YNi2B2C. The result shows large SC GA with a smooth variation along an intersection of a Fermi surface (FS) around the Γ\Gamma-Z line and nearly isotropic SC gap values for two intersections of FSs around the X-P line but with a point-like non-zero minimum only for one sheet. The point-like SC gap minimum can be connected by the nesting vector reported from band calculations. The results show unexpectedly complicated SC GA of borocarbide superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0406,
  title  = {Relation between Superconducting Gap Minima and Nesting Vector in YNi2B2C},
  author = {T. Baba and T. Yokoya and S. Tsuda and T. Watanabe and M. Nohara and H. Takagi T. Oguchi and S. Shin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0406},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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