| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S00255/01 |
| Title: |
The Coexistence of Unconventional Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Transition Metals |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hayden, Professor S |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2003 |
Ends: |
30 September 2004 |
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286,457
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| Materials Characterisation |
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This proposal is to follow up on our recent discovery that the ferromagnet ZrZn2 becomes superconducting below 0.3K. For many years it was widely a: that ferromagnetism and superconductivity were competing phenomena. When pressure is applied to ZrZn2, the magnetism and superconductivity are destroyed at the same applied pressure, suggesting that the superconductivity is somehow induced by the ferromagnetism. To date ZrZn2 is the only to metal system which exhibits this behaviour and thus it provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the inter-relationship between ferromagnetism an superconductivity.W e plan to prepare high quality samples of ZrZn2 and related systems and characterize the superconductivity by transport, thermodynamic and micros( measurements. It appears that the superconductivity in ZrZn2 is highly unconventional, possibly triple p-wave state or a highly-gapless non-BCS state that envisaged by Fulde, Ferrell, Larkin and Ovchinnikov.
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