Horizontal line nodes in superconducting Sr2RuO4

We analyze the possibilities of triplet pairing in Sr2RuO4 based upon an idea of interlayer coupling. We have considered two models differing by the effective interactions. In one model the quasi‐particle spectra have horizontal line nodes on all three Fermi surface sheets, while in the other the spectra have line or point nodes on the α and β sheets and no nodes on the γ sheet. Both models reproduce the experimental heat capacity and penetration depth results, but the calculated specific heat is sightly closer to experiment in the second solution with nodes only on the α and β sheets. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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