Influence of internal disorder on the superconducting state in the organic layered superconductor κ(BEDTTTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br

M. Pinterić, S. Tomić, M. Prester, Đ. Drobac, and K. Maki
Phys. Rev. B 66, 174521 – Published 27 November 2002
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Abstract

We report high-sensitivity ac susceptibility measurements of the penetration depth in the Meissner state of the layered organic superconductor κ(BEDTTTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br. We have studied nominally pure single crystals from the two different syntheses and employed controlled cooling procedures in order to minimize intrinsic remnant disorder at low temperatures associated with the glass transition, caused by ordering of the ethylene moieties in BEDT-TTF molecule at TG=75K. We find that the optimal cooling procedures (slow cooling of 0.2K/h or annealing for 3 days in the region of TG) needed to establish the ground state depend critically on the sample origin, indicating different relaxation times of terminal ethylene groups. We show that, in the ground state, the behavior observed for nominally pure single crystals from both syntheses is consistent with unconventional d-wave order parameter. The in-plane penetration depth λin(T) is strongly linear, whereas the out-of-plane component λout(T) varies as T2. In contrast, the behavior of single crystals with long relaxation times observed after slow (0.2K/h) cooling is as expected for a d-wave superconductor with impurities [i.e., λin(T)λout(T)T2] or might be also reasonably well described by the s-wave model. Our results might reconcile the contradictory findings previously reported by different authors.

  • Received 25 June 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.174521

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. Pinterić*

  • Institute of Physics, P. O. Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia
  • Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, SLO-2000 Maribor, Slovenia

S. Tomić, M. Prester, and Đ. Drobac

  • Institute of Physics, P. O. Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia

K. Maki

  • Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of the Complex Systems, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484

  • *Electronic address: mpinter@ifs.hr

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Vol. 66, Iss. 17 — 1 November 2002

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