Suppression of superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 caused by defects

作     者：Z. Q. Mao Y. Mori Y. Maeno 

作者机构：Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Japan Science and Technology Corporation (CREST-JST) Kawaguchi Saitama 332-0012 Japan 

出 版 物：《Physical Review B》 (物理学评论B辑：凝聚态物质与材料物理学)

年 卷 期：1999年第60卷第1期

页      面：610-610页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

摘      要：We have investigated depairing effects in Sr2RuO4, the unconventional superconductor in the layered perovskite structure. We prepared crystals of Sr2RuO4 with very low levels of impurity elements, and systematically controled their superconducting transition temperature Tc ranging from 1.5 to 0.6 K by adjustments of crystal growth conditions. The dependence of Tc on the residual resistivity ρ0 in these crystals suggests that the defects are strong pair breakers, in addition to impurities. We further characterized the effects of pair breaking in this unconventional superconductor. We found that the in-plane coherence length ξab(0) evaluated from Hc2(T) is inversely proportional to Tc, and decreases with increasing mean free path l; the latter behavior is opposite to that of conventional superconductors. In addition, we examined the temperature dependence of Hc2∥c which substantially deviates from the BCS theory and even from a recent theory of a p-wave superconductor.