%0 Journal Article
%T ¦ĚSR and NMR study of the superconducting Heusler compound YPd2Sn
%A H. Saadaoui
%A T. Shiroka
%A A. Amato
%A C. Baines
%A H. Luetkens
%A E. Pomjakushina
%A V. Pomjakushin
%A J. Mesot
%A M. Pikulski
%A E. Morenzoni
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.094518
%X We report on muon spin rotation/relaxation and $^{119}$Sn nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to study the microscopic superconducting and magnetic properties of the Heusler compound with the highest superconducting transition temperature, \ypd\ ($T_c=5.4$ K). Measurements in the vortex state provide the temperature dependence of the effective magnetic penetration depth $\lambda(T)$ and the field dependence of the superconducting gap $\Delta(0)$. The results are consistent with a very dirty s-wave BCS superconductor with a gap $\Delta(0)=0.85(3)$ meV, $\lambda(0)= 212(1)$ nm, and a Ginzburg-Landau coherence length $\xi_{\mathrm{GL}}(0)\cong 23$ nm. In spite of its very dirty character, the effective density of condensed charge carriers is high compared to the normal state. The \mSR data in a broad range of applied fields are well reproduced by taking into account a field-related reduction of the effective superconducting gap. Zero-field \mSR measurements, sensitive to the possible presence of very small magnetic moments, do not show any indications of magnetism in this compound.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6386v2