Observation of Negative s-Wave Proximity Effect in Superconducting UBe13

Siyuan Han, K. W. Ng, E. L. Wolf, Andrew Millis, J. L. Smith, and Zachary Fisk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 238 – Published 14 July 1986
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Abstract

The Josephson Ic between a Ta-wire probe and an induced, surface, singlet, superconducting state in UBe13 decreases with decreasing temperature below the bulk UBe13 Tc, in contrast to the increase seen in comparison Mo samples. This shows that the bulk UBe13 superconductivity suppresses the induced singlet superconductivity. Such suppression is evidence of a triplet super-conducting state in UBe13. Evidence is presented for phase slip between weakly coupled singlet and triplet order parameters.

  • Received 14 April 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.238

©1986 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Siyuan Han, K. W. Ng, and E. L. Wolf*

  • Ames Laboratory- U. S. Department of Energy and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011

Andrew Millis

  • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

J. L. Smith and Zachary Fisk

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

  • *Permanent address: Department of Physics, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

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Comment on "Observation of Negative s-Wave Proximity Effect in Superconducting UBe13"

A. M. Kadin and A. M. Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2275 (1987)

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