Laser-excited ultrahigh-resolution photoemission study of anisotropic s-wave superconductor YNi2B2C

We have performed laser-excited ultrahigh-resolution photoemission spectroscopy of Y(Ni1-xPt2)(2)B2C (x = 0.0, 0.2) and numerical simulation using s, anisotropic s and even s + g symmetry to study the superconducting gap anisotropy in borocarbide supercodnuctors. We observed the reduction of gap anisotropy in the x = 0.2 sample in comparison to the x = 0.0 sample, confirming the anisotropic s-wave gap. We also found that the spectrum of x = 0.0 at 3.5 K cannot be fitted well with the s + g-wave symmetry, implying that the s + g symmetry is too simple to describe over all supercodncuting gap electronic Structure of borocarbides. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.