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Muon spin rotation study of the magnetic penetration depth in the intercalated graphite superconductor CaC6

Authors :
DI CASTRO, D
Kanigel, A
Maisuradze, A
Keren, A
Postorino, P
D. Rosenmann, D
Welp, D
Karapetrov, G
Claus, H
D. G. Hinks, Dg
Amato, A
Campuzano, Jc
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
arXiv, 2008.

Abstract

We report temperature- and magnetic field-dependent bulk muon spin rotation measurements in a c-axis oriented superconductor CaC6 in the mixed state. Using both a simple second moment analysis and the more precise analytical Ginzburg-Landau model, we obtained a field independent in-plane magnetic penetration depth {\lambda}ab (0) = 72(3) nm. The temperature dependencies of the normalized muon spin relaxation rate and of the normalized superfluid density result to be identical, and both are well represented by the clean limit BCS model with 2\Delta/kB Tc = 3.6(1), suggesting that CaC6 is a fully gapped BCS superconductor in the clean limit regime.<br />Comment: Accepted for publication in PRB

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....89e4666f48aecba0c56ca2820236acc0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0803.4513