Superconductivity and spin fluctuations in Th,U Pt4Ge12 skutterudites

Autor(en)
Ernst Bauer, Xingqiu Chen, Peter Franz Rogl, Gerfried Hilscher, Herwig Michor, Esmaeil Royanian, Raimund Podloucky, Gerald Giester, Oksana Sologub, Antonio P. Goncalves
Abstrakt

Merging exptl. data and ab initio calcns., we report on ThPt4Ge12 and UPt4Ge12 as further members of germanium-based skutterudites. For ThPt4Ge12 electron-phonon coupled supercond. develops below Tc=4.75 K, ascribed to intrinsic features of the Pt-Ge framework where Ge-p states dominate the electronic structure at the Fermi energy. Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida coupling via the Ge framework is too weak to enable magnetic ordering in nonsuperconducting UPt4Ge12.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Technische Universität Wien, Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear
Journal
Physical Review B
Band
78
Seiten
1-6
Anzahl der Seiten
6
ISSN
1098-0121
Publikationsdatum
2008
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105113 Kristallographie, 1040 Chemie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/490295af-f862-4223-a7e2-c4f01c233990