Spin-triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 identified by 17O Knight shift

K. Ishida (), H. Mukuda, Y. Kitaoka, K. Asayama, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Mori and Y. Maeno
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K. Ishida: Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
H. Mukuda: Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
Y. Kitaoka: Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
K. Asayama: Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
Z. Q. Mao: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Y. Mori: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Y. Maeno: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6712, 658-660

Abstract: Abstract Superconductivity — one of the best understood many-body problems in physics — has again become a challenge following the discovery of unconventional superconducting materials: these include heavy-fermion1, organic2 and the high-transition-temperature copper oxide3 superconductors. In conventional superconductors, the electrons form superconducting Cooper pairs in a spin-singlet state, which has zero total spin (S = 0). In principle, Cooper pairs can also form in a spin-triplet state (S = 1), analogous to the spin-triplet ‘p-wave’ state of paired neutral fermions in superfluid 3He (ref. 4). At present, the heavy-fermion compound UPt3 is the only known spin-triplet superconductor5,6, although the layered oxide superconductor Sr2RuO4 (ref. 7) is believed, on theoretical grounds8, to be a promising candidate. The most direct means of identifying the spin state of Cooper pairs is from measurements of their spin susceptibility, which can be determined by the Knight shift (as probed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)). Here we report Knight-shift measurements of Sr2RuO2 using 17O NMR. Our results show no change in spin susceptibility on passing through the superconducting transition temperature, which provides the definitive identification of Sr2RuO4 as a spin-triplet superconductor.

Date: 1998
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