Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point and Nodal Superconductivity in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor Ce 2PdIn 8

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dong, J K ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Qiu, X ^a   Pan, B Y ^a   Dai, Y F ^a   Guan, T Y ^a   Zhou, S Y ^a   Gnida D , ^b   Kaczorowski, D ^b   Li, S Y ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF LOW TEMPERATURE AND STRUCTURE RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Condensed Matter Physics; Magnetism; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

FIELD-INDUCED; HEAVY-FERMION; IN-PLANE RESISTIVITY; LINEAR TERMS; LOW FIELD; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; UPPER CRITICAL FIELDS; ZERO FIELDS;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; MAGNETISM; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 80155138390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.011010     Document Type: Article

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