Anisotropic superconducting gap in transuranium superconductor PuRhGa; Ga NQR study on a single crystal
Sakai, Hironori ; Tokunaga, Yo ; Fujimoto, Tatsuya; Kambe, Shinsaku ; Walstedt, R. E.; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Yamamoto, Etsuji ; Nakamura, Akio; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu; Nakajima, Kunihisa ; Arai, Yasuo; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori ; Onuki, Yoshichika
Ga NMR/NQR studies have been performed on a single crystal of the transuranium superconductor PuRhGa with K. We have observed a Ga NQR line at 29.15 MHz, and assigned it to the Ga site using the NMR results. The Ga NQR spin-lattice relaxation rate shows no coherence peak just below , but obeys behavior below . This result strongly suggests that PuRhGa is an unconventional superconductor having an anisotropic superconducting gap. The gap amplitude 2 and the residual density of states 0.25 have been determined assuming a simple polar function of the form =, where and are angular parameters on the Fermi surface.