Abstract
Calculation of the electron-phonon interaction strength using the conventional theory for metals, which should be applicable in the normal regime, leads to the very small value of 0.035 for the heavy-fermion superconductor U. It is argued that the interactions responsible for the large observed mass enhancement in the heavy-fermion regime will tend to further decrease , strengthening the conventional wisdom that either unconventional electron-phonon coupling or electronic interactions are responsible for pairing.
- Received 14 July 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.34.6546
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