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arxiv: cond-mat/0212090 · v2 · submitted 2002-12-04 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

Multiphase Superconductivity in Skutterudite PrOs₄Sb₁2

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We propose a model of nodal order parameters for the superconducting A and B - phase of skutterudite PrOs_4Sb_{12} and discuss the associated angular dependent magnetothermal conductivity at low temperatures. The model for the hybrid gap functions \De(k) containing an s- and g- wave parts is consistent with recent thermal conductivity experiments in PrOs_4Sb_12. In particular the model accounts for the data on polar an azimuthal field angle dependence of \kappa_zz(\theta,\phi). The low temperature behaviour of thermodynamic properties in zero field is also presented. We show that the effect of impurity scattering on a nodal hybrid gap function immediately leads the opening of a gap and related exponential behaviour of low temperature specific heat and thermal conductivity which is very different from d- wave superconductors.

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