Surface Superconducting State of Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeIrIn5 Probed by CeIrIn5-Ag Junctions |
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Authors: | T Fukui A Sumiyama Y Oda Y Inada D Aoki H Shishido Y Haga Y Ōnuki |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan;(2) Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan;(3) Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai, Ibaraki, 319-1106, Japan |
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Abstract: | The CeIrIn5-Ag junctions of about 2×10–9 cm–2 area have been made using microfabrication techniques, and the surface superconducting state of CeIrIn5, which has two characteristic temperatures T
0 and T
c, has been investigated, where T
0 and T
c are the transition temperature to zero-resistivity state and the bulk, thermodynamic transition temperature, respectively. The temperature, below which superconducting anomalies are observed, varies from junction to junction, and yet it is always well above T
c=0.4 K. This result, together with no indication of transition at T
c, suggests that at least the surface of CeIrIn5 is in the superconducting state above T
c. The data on the critical current I
c in superconducting anomalies point to the possibility to define a local transition temperature for each junction. |
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Keywords: | heavy-fermion superconductors CeIrIn5-Ag junctions Meissner effect |
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