Study on successive superconducting transitions in Ta$_{2}$S$_{2}$C from electrical resistivity and nonlinear AC magnetic susceptibility

Details Study on successive superconducting transitions in Ta$_{2}$S$_{2}$C from electrical resistivity and nonlinear AC magnetic susceptibility Study on successive superconducting transitions in Ta$_{2}$S$_{2}$C from electrical resistivity and nonlinear AC magnetic susceptibility

2006-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601078v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

11 pages, 10 figures, Physical Review B (accepted for publication)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.184536

Ta$_{2}$S$_{2}$C compound undergoes superconducting transitions at $T_{cl} = 3.60 \pm 0.02$ K and $T_{cu} = 9.0 \pm 0.2$ K. The nature of successive superconducting transitions has been studied from electrical resistivity, linear and nonlinear AC magnetic susceptibilities. The resistivity $\rho$ at $H$ = 0 shows a local maximum near $T_{cu}$, a kink-like behavior around $T_{cl}$, and reduces to zero at below $T_{0}$ = 2.1 K. The $\ln T$ dependence of $\rho$ is observed at $H$ = 50 kOe at low temperatures, which is due to two-dimensional weak-localization effect. Below $T_{cu}$ a two-dimensional superconducting phase occurs in each TaC layer. The linear and nonlinear susceptibilities $\chi_{1}^{\prime\prime}$, $\chi_{3}^{\prime}$, $\chi_{5}^{\prime}$, and $\chi_{7}^{\prime}$ as well as the difference $\delta\chi$ ($= \chi_{FC} - \chi_{ZFC}$) between the FC and ZFC susceptibilities, start to appear below 6.0 K, the onset temperature of irreversibility. A drastic growth of the in-plane superconducting coherence length below 6.0 K gives rise to a three-dimensional superconducting phase below $T_{cl}$, through interplanar Josephson couplings between adjacent TaC layers. The oscillatory behavior of $\chi_{3}^{\prime\prime}$, $\chi_{5}^{\prime\prime}$, and $\chi_{7}^{\prime\prime} $ below $T_{cl}$ is related to the nonlinear behavior arising from the thermally activated flux flow.

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