SUPERCONDUCTING STATE OF KAPPA-(ET)(2)CU[N(CN)(2)]BR STUDIED BY C-13 NMR - EVIDENCE FOR VORTEX-CORE-INDUCED NUCLEAR-RELAXATION AND UNCONVENTIONAL PAIRING

Citation
H. Mayaffre et al., SUPERCONDUCTING STATE OF KAPPA-(ET)(2)CU[N(CN)(2)]BR STUDIED BY C-13 NMR - EVIDENCE FOR VORTEX-CORE-INDUCED NUCLEAR-RELAXATION AND UNCONVENTIONAL PAIRING, Physical review letters, 75(22), 1995, pp. 4122-4125
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
75
Issue
22
Year of publication
1995
Pages
4122 - 4125
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1995)75:22<4122:SSOKSB>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We present the first C-13 NMR measurements carried out in the supercon ducting state of a two-dimensional organic superconducting single crys tal. Spin lattice relaxation rate and Knight shift are reported for ma gnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to the conducting layers. For perpendicular fields, the relaxation is dominated by the electronic e xcitations in the vortex cores. From the field dependence of (T-1)(-1) we obtain the upper critical field [H-c2(0) = 10 T]. In parallel orie ntation, the absence of field dependence reveals the existence of a lo ck-in state; where only relaxation by superconducting excitations is e xpected. The (T-1)(-1) then exhibits a T-3 law suggesting an unconvent ional pairing with a very anisotropic gap.