Evidence for Pauli-limiting behaviour at high fields and enhanced upper critical fields near T-c in several disordered FeAs based superconductors

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Contributors

  • G. Fuchs - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • S. -L. Drechsler - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • N. Kozlova - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • M. Bartkowiak - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • G. Behr - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • K. Nenkov - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • H. -H. Klauss - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • J. Freudenberger - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • M. Knupfer - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • F. Hammerath - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • G. Lang - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • H. -J. Grafe - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • B. Buechner - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • L. Schultz - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)

Abstract

We report resistivity and upper critical field B-c2 (T) data for disordered (As-deficient) LaO0.9F0.1 FeAs1-delta in a wide temperature and high field range up to 60 T. These samples exhibit a slightly enhanced superconducting transition at T-c = 28.5 K and a significantly enlarged slope dB(c2/dT) = -5.4 T/K near T-c which contrasts with a flattening of B-c2(T) starting near 23K above 30T. The latter evidences Pauli-limiting behaviour (PLB) with B-c2(0) approximate to 63 T. We compare our results with B-c2 (T)-data from the literature for clean and disordered samples. Whereas clean samples show almost no PLB for fields below 60-70 T, the hitherto unexplained pronounced flattening of B-c2 (T) for applied fields H vertical bar ab observed for several disordered closely related systems is interpreted also as a manifestation of PLB. Consequences are discussed in terms of disorder effects within the frames of (un)conventional superconductivity, respectively. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S288-S290
Number of pages3
JournalPhysica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
Volume470
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Conference

Title9th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
Duration7 - 12 September 2009
CityTokyo
CountryJapan

External IDs

Scopus 78649695111

Keywords

Keywords

  • Ferro-pnictide superconductors, Upper critical field, Disorder, As-vacancies, Pauli-limiting, Magnetic pair breaking

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