Thermal Conductivity of Superconducting: Evidence for a Nodeless Gap
- 15 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (11) , 2125-2128
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.2125
Abstract
We report on the first measurements of thermal conductivity in the superconducting state of . The electronic contribution to heat transport is found to decrease rapidly below , indicating the absence of low-energy electronic excitations. We argue that this result provides strong evidence for a nodeless superconducting gap function, but does not exclude a possible unconventional order parameter.
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