Search for magnetic resonance in the superconducting state of Mo3Sb7

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The intermetallic Mo3Sb7 compound exhibits superconductivity at Tc=2 K and exhibits interesting physical properties in the magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity and point-contact (PC) Andreev-reflection. Remarkably, measurement of the specific heat points to the existence of two BCS-like gaps. Considering the similarity between superconducting Mo3Sb7 and unconventional superconductors (high-Tc-cuprates, Heavy-fermion), and interesting resonant magnetic excitation (observed resonance peak at 4.5-5*Tc) property of the latter materials, we propose here to investigate low energy inelastic neutron scattering response of Mo3Sb7 using the OSIRIS/IRIS spectrometer. We expect the resonance peak near 0.6 meV in Mo3Sb7 on the basis of finding in CeCoIn5 having similar TC=2.2 K the resonance peak is observed at 0.6 meV.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24072759
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24072759
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Creator Professor Vinh Hung Tran; Dr Devashi Adroja
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-16T08:08:07Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-09-24T08:28:35Z