Superfluid density and energy gap function of superconducting PrPt4Ge12.
The filled skutterudite superconductor PrPt4Ge12 was studied in muon-spin rotation (muSR), specific heat, and electrical resistivity experiments. The continuous increase of the superfluid density with decreasing temperature and the dependence of the magnetic penetration depth lambda on the magnetic field obtained by means of muSR, as well as the observation of a T3 dependence of the electronic specific heat indicate the presence of pointlike nodes in the superconducting energy gap. The gap and the specific heat are found to be well described by two models with point nodes, similar to results obtained for the unconventional heavy fermion skutterudite superconductor PrOs4Sb12.
Maisuradze
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Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland. alexander.maisuradze@psi.ch
Nicklas
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Gumeniuk
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Baines
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Schnelle
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Rosner
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Leithe-Jasper
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Grin
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Khasanov
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