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Y. Oda

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Point-contact spectroscopy of the heavy-fermion superconductor CePt$_{3}$Si

Differential resistance spectra (${\rm d}V/{\rm d}I-V$ characteristics) have been measured for point-contacts between the heavy-fermion superconductor (HFS) CePt$_{3}$Si and a normal metal. Some contacts show a peak at V=0 that is characteristic of HFS coexisting with a magnetic order such as UPd$_2$Al$_3$, UNi$_2$Al$_3$ and URu$_2$Si$_2$. The evolution of the peak occurs well above the antiferromagnetic transition temperature $T_{\rm N}\sim$ 2.2 K, so that the direct relationship with the magnetic transition is questionable. The half-width of the peak seems to reflect the crystal field splitting or the spin-wave gap as observed for the above-mentioned HFSs, possibly suggesting that some common scattering process induces the zero-bias peaks in these materials.

cond-mat.str-el

NMR study of electronic state in CePt3Si

In this article, we report the temperature dependence of spin-lattice relaxation rates at two Pt sites and one Si site in CePt3Si with a non-centrosymmetric structure center. 1/T1 for both Pt sites between 2 K and 300 K and 1/T1 of Si above 3 K might be explained by the contributions from the low-lying crystal-electric-field level and the quasiparticle due to the hybridization between the ground state and conduction electrons. Just below Tc no remarkable enhancement in 1/T1 was observed. The estimated value of superconducting gap is about 2Delta = 3kBTc.

cond-mat.supr-con

Proximity-induced superconductivity in platinum metals

The diamagnetism of platinum metals (N: Rh, Pt, Pd), which is induced by the proximity effect of a superconductor (S: Nb), has been investigated for N-S double layers. Notwithstanding the strong spin fluctuation in platinum metals, the screening distance ρin N increases with a decrease in temperature and reaches a value which is expected in comparison with ρin Cu. When magnetic impurities are included in N, the proximity effect is drastically suppressed and the paramagnetism due to a giant moment is observed.

cond-mat.supr-con

Diamagnetic Response of Normal-Superconducting Double Layers

The diamagnetism of a normal metal (N: Cu or Au), which is induced by the proximity effect of a superconductor (S: Nb), has been investigated for N-S double layers, which are formed by a thin-film deposition process. Detailed studies of samples, which have different electronic mean-free path \ell_N in N, suggest that \ell_N should be controlled by the impurity concentration rather than the mechanical imperfections in the lattice in order to clarify the \ell_N dependence of the proximity effect. Both the screening distance ρin N and the parameter νin ρ\propto T^-νincrease with an increase in \ell_N. This result can be understood on the assumption that the normal metal changes its behavior from the "dirty" limit (ξ_N>\ell_N) to the "clean" limit (ξ_N<\ell_N), where ξ_N is the coherence length in N.

cond-mat.supr-con