Electronic thermal conductivity of superconducting lead-manganese and indium-manganese alloy films

Measurements have been made of the electronic thermal conductivity of quench-condensed films of lead-manganese and indium-manganese alloys. The results are compared with calculations based on Shiba's theory of superconductors containing magnetic impurities. For Pb-Mn, the value of ${\epsilon }_0$ (the normalized position in the energy gap of the excited state associated with a single impurity) which was used earlier to explain tunneling measurements, is 0.55; this value is consistent with our data. For In-Mn, the value ${\epsilon }_0=0.85$ gives excellent agreement with our data.