Superconducting and Fermi Surface Properties of a Valence Fluctuation Compound CeIr 2
Résumé
CeIr 2 was reported as a valence fluctuation compound with a superconducting transition temperature of ∼0.3 K. To investigate its electronic and superconducting properties, we measured the electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect at low temperatures cooled to ∼30 mK and in high magnetic fields up to 36 T. The upper critical field (μ 0 H c2 = 0.23 T) determined by the electrical resistivity under the magnetic field and the electron-phonon coupling constant (λ ep = 0.39) estimated from the Debye temperature suggested a weak-coupling BCStype superconductivity. The dHvA effect measurements mapped the Fermi surface in detail. The dHvA branches with the frequencies of F = 122-2180 T and the effective masses of m à c ¼ 0:83{2:4 m 0 (m 0 : rest mass of an electron) were observed. These were reasonably explained by the band-structure calculation based on the full potential linearized augmented-plane-wave method within the local density approximation.
Domaines
Matière Condensée [cond-mat]
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