Interplane penetration depth in $\kappa $-(ET)$_{2}$Cu[N(CN)$_{2}$]Br

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Abstract

We report measurements of the interplane penetration depth $\lambda _{\bot }$(T)$_{ }$ in the organic superconductor $\kappa $- (ET)$_{2}$Cu[N(CN)$_{2}$]Br\textbf{ (}T$_{C}$ = 11.9 K). At low temperatures, the superfluid density $\rho _{\bot }$= [$\lambda _{\bot }$(0)/ $\lambda _{\bot }$(T)]$^{2} \quad \propto $ 1-AT$^{N}$ with N = 1.3 -- 1.5, close to the exponent measured for the in-plane superfluid density. This result adds support to a d-wave picture, but with transport between planes more coherent than is observed in similarly anisotropic copper oxide superconductors.

*Work at UIUC supported by NSF DMR 05-03882. Work at Argonne National Lab supported by DOE contract \# W-31-109-ENG-38.

Authors

  • Russell Giannetta

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
  • Z. Shi

  • T.A. Olheiser

  • A. McCormick

  • D.D. Lawrie

    • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
  • R. Prozorov

    • Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
  • J.A. Schlueter

  • A.M. Kini

  • U. Geiser

    • Material Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439