Flux line lattice melting and the formation of a coherent quasiparticle Bloch state in the ultraclean URu2Si2 superconductor |
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Authors: | Okazaki R Kasahara Y Shishido H Konczykowski M Behnia K Haga Y Matsuda T D Onuki Y Shibauchi T Matsuda Y |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. okazaki@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | We find that in the ultraclean heavy-fermion superconductor URu(2)Si(2) (T_{c0}=1.45 K) a distinct flux line lattice melting transition with outstanding characters occurs well below the mean-field upper critical fields. We show that a very small number of carriers with heavy mass in this system results in exceptionally large thermal fluctuations even at sub-Kelvin temperatures, which are witnessed by a sizable region of the flux line liquid phase. The uniqueness is further highlighted by an enhancement of the quasiparticle mean free path below the melting transition, implying a possible formation of a quasiparticle Bloch state in the periodic flux line lattice. |
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