Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 5, March 2008
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Article Number | 57002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/57002 | |
Published online | 31 January 2008 |
Unconventional isotope effects in superconducting fullerides
1
CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Parma - Via G. P. Usberti 7/a, 43100 Parma, Italy
2
Laboratory for Muon-Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut - CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Received:
14
September
2007
Accepted:
4
January
2008
Although widely accepted, the phonon-mediated, BCS-like theory of superconducting A3C60 fullerides (A = K, Rb, Cs) cannot reproduce correctly all their parameters, even in its strong-coupling, Migdal-Eliashberg limit. The fundamental difficulty, ascribed to intrinsically close phonon and electron energy scales (respectively at 0.2 and 0.25 eV), has been overcome by dynamical mean-field theories (DMFT), which, unlike ME, consider electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions on an equal footing. The unconventional phenomena predicted in the new framework include, among others, isotope effects on spin susceptibility, totally absent from standard theories. We have tested these predictions, finding a significant dependence on the isotopic mass in both Tc and, more importantly, in the normal-state Pauli susceptibility . The comparative measurement of
in two different K3C60 samples (85% 13C-enriched vs. natural abundance), both by SQUID magnetometry as well as by 13C NMR Knight shift, definitely confirms the presence of an isotope effect on susceptibility, although a quantitative agreement with theory is still missing.
PACS: 71.20.Tx – Fullerenes and related materials; intercalation compounds / 74.25.Ha – Properties of type I and type II superconductors: Magnetic properties / 76.60.Cq – Chemical and Knight shifts
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