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Hybridization and superconducting gaps in heavy-fermion superconductor PuCoGa5 probed via the dynamics of photoinduced quasiparticles
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters, vol 104, page 227002 (2010)
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- We have examined the relaxation of photoinduced quasiparticles in the heavy-fermion superconductor PuCoGa5. The deduced electron-phonon coupling constant is incompatible with the measured superconducting transition temperature Tc=18.5 K, which speaks against phonon-mediated superconducting pairing. Upon lowering the temperature, we observe an order-of-magnitude increase of the quasiparticle relaxation time in agreement with the phonon bottleneck scenario - evidence for the presence of a hybridization gap in the electronic density of states. The modification of photoinduced reflectance in the superconducting state is consistent with the heavy character of the quasiparticles that participate in Cooper pairing.
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters, vol 104, page 227002 (2010)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1006.4082
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.227002