Penetration depth, lower critical fields, and quasiparticle conductivity in Fe-arsenide superconductors

Details Penetration depth, lower critical fields, and quasiparticle conductivity in Fe-arsenide superconductors Penetration depth, lower critical fields, and quasiparticle conductivity in Fe-arsenide superconductors

2009-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3782v1

Physica C 469, 590-598 (2009).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

12 pages, 11 figures. Review article in Physica C Special Issue on Superconductivity of Iron Pnictides

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physc.2009.03.013

In this article, we review our recent studies of microwave penetration depth, lower critical fields, and quasiparticle conductivity in the superconducting state of Fe-arsenide superconductors. High-sensitivity microwave surface impedance measurements of the in-plane penetration depth in single crystals of electron-doped PrFeAsO1-y (y~0.1) and hole-doped Ba1-xKxFe2As2 (x~0.55) are presented. In clean crystals of Ba1-xKxFe2As2, as well as in PrFeAsO1-y crystals, the penetration depth shows flat temperature dependence at low temperatures, indicating that the superconducting gap opens all over the Fermi surface. The temperature dependence of superfluid density in both systems is most consistent with the existence of two different gaps. In Ba1-xKxFe2As2, we find that the superfluid density is sensitive to degrees of disorder inherent in the crystals, implying unconventional impurity effect. We also determine the lower critical field $H_{c1}$ in PrFeAsO1-y by using an array of micro-Hall probes. The temperature dependence of $H_{c1}$ saturates at low temperatures, fully consistent with the superfluid density determined by microwave measurements. The anisotropy of $H_{c1}$ has a weak temperature dependence with smaller values than the anisotropy of upper critical fields at low temperatures, which further supports the multi-gap superconductivity in Fe-arsenide systems. The quasiparticle conductivity shows an enhancement in the superconducting state, which suggests the reduction of quasiparticle scattering rate due to the gap formation below $T_c$. From these results, we discuss the structure of the superconducting gap in these Fe-arsenides, in comparison with the high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors.

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