Temperature dependence of the lower critical field of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor $\alpha$-BiPd

Abstract

Temperature variation of the lower critical field in the noncentrosymmetric superconductor $\alpha$-BiPd was probed by local magnetization measurements using Hall micromagnetometry, performed down to 0.3 K in a magnetic field applied along the crystallographic $b$ axis. Below a critical temperature $T_c\simeq$ 3.8 K, a conventional $H_{c1}(T)$ dependence was found, typical for a single-band $s$-wave BCS superconductor. The obtained data imply an absence of spin-triplet component in the superconducting wavefunction and marginal multiband effects in this material, which contradicts some literature reports.

14 pages, 5 figures

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