Search for neutron spin-resonance in the exotic heavy fermion superconductor UPt3

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Neutron spin resonance mode is a common feature in different classes of magnetic superconductors; nonetheless, the microscopic origin of the mode is still unclear. In general, it is believed to arise from singlet-to-triplet excitations associated with electron Cooper pairs since all previously studied materials have singlet ground states. The situation for the heavy fermion superconductor UPt3 is quite different, as it is thought to be a triplet superconductor. We propose to search for a neutron spin-resonance in UPt3, which is particularly important and timely for the general understanding of magnetically mediated superconductors and the microscopic origin of the resonance. Since electron pairing in UPt3 may be a triplet, the discovery of a neutron resonance in this material would help to establish the origin of this collective mode.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079301
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079301
Provenance
Creator Professor Pengcheng Dai; Ms Mengshu Liu; Dr William Gannon
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-07-13T07:53:23Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-23T04:15:02Z