Back to Search Start Over

Effect of two gaps on the flux-lattice internal field distribution: evidence of two length scales in Mg(1-x)AlxB2 from muSR

Authors :
S, Serventi
G, Allodi
R, De Renzi
G, Guidi
L, RomanĂ²
P, Manfrinetti
A, Palenzona
Ch, Niedermayer
A, Amato
Ch, Baines
Source :
Physical review letters. 93(21)
Publication Year :
2004

Abstract

We have measured the transverse field muon spin precession in the flux-lattice (FL) state of the two-gap superconductor MgB2 and of the electron doped compounds Mg(1-x)AlxB2 in magnetic fields up to 2.8 T. We show the effect of the two gaps on the internal field distribution in the FL, from which we determine two coherence length parameters and the doping dependence of the London penetration depth. This is an independent determination of the complex vortex structure already suggested by the STM observation of large vortices in a MgB2 single crystal. Our data agree quantitatively with STM and we thus validate a new phenomenological model for the internal fields.

Details

ISSN :
00319007
Volume :
93
Issue :
21
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Accession number :
edsair.pmid..........bf3464e179841ff2d7e97b32acb02b5b