ass5: Look at Ozcan's results

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With knowledge about $\lambda(0)$ from other sources, $\lambda(T)$ is determined by determining $\Delta \lambda$ from $\delta f$.
Now the superfluid density can be determined.
In \cite{ozcan}, heavy-fermion superconductor \ce{CeCoIn5} is investigated using the TDO technique to measure its penetration depth.
It is an unconventional superconductor, and the question is what type of wave-symmetry it exhibits.
The paper found a non-linear $\lambda(T)$ relation.
See figure \ref{fig:linear-lambda} for their results.
They do conclude that the material is in a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconductor ground state.
I would expect there to be no nodes in the band gap energy, in this case, which however is the case.
The authors also seem puzzled at the beginning.
They suspect strong-scattering impurities to alter the $\lambda(T)$ relation.
To exclude this possibility, they checked a couple of possible explanations.
Purity was checked and impurity content was determined to be a factor 100 smaller than the deviation in $\lambda(T)$ would imply.
Other theories were also ruled out, on impossibility of far-fetchedness.
They conclude by proposing non-Fermi-liquid renormalisation in both the normal and superconducting state of \ce{CeCoIn5} to take place, yielding the well fitting relation as seen in the inset of figure \ref{fig:linear-lambda}.
This means that their would be quantum criticality in the superconducting state, i.e. a phase transition at zero temperature.
That would be exotic.
In conclusion, the behavior of \ce{CeCoIn5} was not explained with certainty at the point this paper was published (2003), although quantum criticality was a possibility.
However, years later (2014), further research supports their hypothesis \cite{paglione_quantum_2016}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.6\textwidth]{ozcan-linear.png}
\caption{For \ce{CeCoIn5}, $\lambda(T) \propto T^2/(T-T^*)$ is plotted in the main plot. In the inset, the concluding hypothesis of the authors \cite{ozcan} is presented, i.e. $\lambda(T) \propto T^{1.5}$.}
\label{fig:linear-lambda}
\end{figure}
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