Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in the nonoxide perovskite MgCNi3 from penetration depth measurements -: art. no. 180502

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Prozorov, R
Snezhko, A
He, T
Cava, RJ
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[1] Univ S Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[2] Univ S Carolina, USC NanoCtr, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Chem, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[4] Princeton Univ, Princeton Mat Inst, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevB.68.180502
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The London penetration depth lambda(T) was measured in polycrystalline powders of the nonoxide perovskite superconductor MgCNi3 by using a sensitive tunnel-diode resonator technique. The penetration depth exhibits distinctly non s-wave BCS low-temperature behavior, instead showing quadratic temperature dependence, suggestive of a nodal order parameter.
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