Search for a spontaneous magnetization in the superconducting B-phase of UPt3

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1996 EDP Sciences
, , Citation H. Kambara et al 1996 EPL 36 545 DOI 10.1209/epl/i1996-00267-5

0295-5075/36/7/545

Abstract

We report the results of a search for a spontaneous magnetization in the superconducting B-phase of UPt3 which is predicted to exist because of broken time-reversal symmetry. We have measured the change of magnetic flux upon the superconducting transition in a field very close to zero by using a SQUID magnetometer. Our result gives the upper limit of 2 mG for the spontaneous internal field, one order of magnitude smaller than obtained by a recent μSR measurement. The small value favors the theory of orbital degeneracy of the pair wave function over the theory of spin degeneracy.

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10.1209/epl/i1996-00267-5