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Title: Superconducting Gap Structure of kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 Probed by Thermal Conductivity Tensor

Abstract: The thermal conductivity of organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 (Tc =10.4 K) has been studied in a magnetic field rotating within the 2D superconducting planes with high alignment precision. At low temperatures (T < 0.5 K), a clear fourfold symmetry in the angular variation, which is characteristic of a d-wave superconducting gap with nodes along the directions rotated 45 degrees relative to the b and c axes of the crystal, was resolved. The determined nodal structure is inconsistent with recent theoretical predictions of superconductivity induced by the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation.
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 027002 (2002).
Cite as: arXiv:cond-mat/0107537v2 [cond-mat.supr-con]

Submission history

From: Koichi Izawa [view email]
[v1] Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:12:58 GMT (60kb)
[v2] Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:55:20 GMT (61kb)