Thermal conductivity in the vortex state of the superconductor UPd_2Al_3
arXiv:cond-mat/0505057 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.014502
Abstract
The magneto-thermal conductivity kappa is calculated for the vortex state of UPd_2Al_3 by assuming horizontal gap nodes. The Green's function method we employed takes into account the effects of supercurrent flow and Andreev scattering on the quasiparticles due to Abrikosov's vortex lattice order parameter. The calculated angular dependence of kappa_{yy} for field rotation theta_0 in the ac-plane depends strongly on field strength H, impurity scattering, anisotropy of the Fermi velocity, and temperature. For finite temperatures and the clean unitary scattering limit we get qualitative agreement with recent experiments for all four proposed gap functions having horizontal line nodes at ck_z = 0, pi/4, and pi/2.
12 pages, 3 figures with several parts
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