Superconducting and normal state properties of dilute alloys of LaSn3 containing Ce impurities

L. E. DeLong; M. B. Maple; M. Tovar

doi:10.1016/0038-1098(78)91291-7

Superconducting and normal state properties of dilute alloys of LaSn₃ containing Ce impurities

L. E. DeLong, M. B. Maple, M. Tovar

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Abstract

The dependence of the superconducting transition temperature T_c on Ce impurity concentration and the specific heat jump at T_c as a function of T_c are reported for the system (LaCe)Sn₃. The experimental results are analyzed using a theory due to Kaiser concerning the effect on superconductivity of nonmagnetic localized resonant impurity states This analysis yields values for the intraatomic Coulomb repulsion parameter U_eff and the Ce local density of states at the Fermi level N_ℓ (E_F). The results of low temperature normal state heat capacity and magnetic susceptibility measurements which give independent estimates of N_ℓ (E_F) are also reported. A large pressure dependence of the T_c of (LaCe)Sn₃ alloys was observed for pressures up to 20 kbar. This behavior is similar to that previously observed in several other superconducting matrix-Ce impurity systems in which the Ce solute 4f electron shell undergoes a continuous-pressure induced demagnetization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	469-475
Number of pages	7
Journal	Solid State Communications
Volume	26
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(78)91291-7
State	Published - May 1978

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Research lupported by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration under Contract No. ERDA E(04-3)-34PA227. Present address: Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901. Fellow of the Coneejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de la Republica Argentina on leave from Centro Atomico Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina.

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