Superconductivity in the Presence of Strong Pauli Paramagnetism: CeCu<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>
- Steglich, F.
- Aarts, J.
- Bredl, C.
- Lieke, W.
- Meschede, D.
- Franz, W.
- Schäfer, H.
Publication date
December 1979
DOI Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Abstract
A comparison was made between four low-temperature properties of LaCu2Si2 and CeCu2Si2. Whereas LaCu2Si2 behaves like a normal metal, CeCu2Si2 shows (i) low-temperature anomalies typical of "unstable 4f shell" behavior and (ii) a transition into a superconducting state at Tc≃0.5 K. Our experiments demonstrate for the first time that superconductivity can exist in a metal in which many-body interactions, probably magnetic in origin, have strongly renormalized the properties of the conduction-electron gas
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