High Pressure Studies of CeIn$_{3}$ in High Magnetic Fields

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Abstract

High pressure and strong magnetic fields are useful tools for studying the relationship between the antiferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity observed in the heavy fermion superconductor CeIn$_{3}$.$^{1,2}$ We report high pulsed magnetic field (up to 55 T) pressure studies of single crystal CeIn$_{3}$ utilizing the change in the resonant frequency of a tunnel diode oscillator (TDO) as a contactless means of measuring the skin depth of the crystal. An anomaly in the skin depth was observed at $\sim $42 T and was found to be driven to lower fields with increasing pressure. The relationship of the observed anomaly with the nature of the Fermi surface and the formation of a superconducting state at $\sim $200 mK and 27 kbar will be discussed. 1. N. Harrison et al, preprint arXiv:07062387 2. N. D. Mathur et al, Nature, 394, 39 (1998)

*Work supported by DOE DE-FG52-06NA26193, NSF Cooperative Agreement No. DMR-0084173, and the State of Florida

Authors

  • Kenneth Purcell

    • Florida State Universty
  • Jason Cooley

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Rongwei Hu

    • Brown University
  • Ross McDonald

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - LANL
  • Cedomir Petrovic

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Stan Tozer

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - FSU
    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory