Observation of the non-linear Meissner effect

被引:6
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作者
Wilcox, J. A. [1 ]
Grant, M. J. [1 ]
Malone, L. [1 ]
Putzke, C. [1 ,7 ]
Kaczorowski, D. [2 ]
Wolf, T. [3 ]
Hardy, F. [3 ]
Meingast, C. [3 ]
Analytis, J. G. [4 ,5 ,6 ,8 ]
Chu, J. -H. [4 ,5 ,6 ,9 ]
Fisher, I. R. [4 ,5 ,6 ]
Carrington, A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[2] Polish Acad Sci, Inst Low Temp & Struct Res, PL-50950 Wroclaw, Poland
[3] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Mat & Technol, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
[4] Stanford Univ, Geballe Lab Adv Mat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Stanford Univ, Dept Appl Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[6] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford Inst Mat & Energy Sci, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[7] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Mat, Lab Quantum Mat, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[9] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
MAGNETIC PENETRATION DEPTH; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TEMPERATURE; DEPENDENCE; YBA2CU3O6.95; CECOIN5;
D O I
10.1038/s41467-022-28790-y
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The non-linear Meissner effect is a key manifestation of unconventional nodal superconductors but its experimental evidence has been elusive. Here, the authors observe the nonlinear Meissner effect in nodal superconductors CeCoIn5 and LaFePO. A long-standing theoretical prediction is that in clean, nodal unconventional superconductors the magnetic penetration depth lambda, at zero temperature, varies linearly with magnetic field. This non-linear Meissner effect is an equally important manifestation of the nodal state as the well studied linear-in-T dependence of lambda, but has never been convincingly experimentally observed. Here we present measurements of the nodal superconductors CeCoIn5 and LaFePO which clearly show this non-linear Meissner effect. We further show how the effect of a small dc magnetic field on lambda(T) can be used to distinguish gap nodes from non-nodal deep gap minima. Our measurements of KFe2As2 suggest that this material has such a non-nodal state.
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