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Upper critical field H_c2 in PrOs4Sb12

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the upper critical field of the A and B phases in the triplet superconductor PrOs_{4}Sb_{12} within the p+h-wave superconductivity proposed recently for this material. The present result is compared with H_{c2}(t) and H*(t), the boundary between the A and B phase in PrOs_{4}Sb_{12}, reported earlier and with more recent data of Hc2(t)_{c2}(t) for the single phase crystal. We find H_{c2}(t)'s for both the two phase crystal and the single phase crystal are described by the model for the A phase. From this fitting one can deduce the Fermi velocity as v=2.5 x 10^6 cm/s. On the other hand H_{c2}(t) for the B phase is found to be somewhat smaller than H*(t), which is rather puzzling.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510527,
  title  = {Upper critical field H_c2 in PrOs4Sb12},
  author = {D. Parker and K. Maki and H. Won},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510527},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures