Precision Microwave Electrodynamic Measurements of K- and Co-doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$

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2010-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3941v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

11 pages, 11 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B

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We have studied the microwave electrodynamics of single crystal iron-based superconductors Ba$_{0.72}$K$_{0.28}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ (hole-doped, $T_\mathrm{c}$ $\approx $30 K) and Ba(Fe$_{0.95}$Co$_{0.05}$)$_2$As$_2$ (electron-doped, $T_\mathrm{c}$ $\approx$20 K), by cavity perturbation and broadband spectroscopy. SQUID magnetometry was used to confirm the quality and homogeneity of the samples under study. Through cavity perturbation techniques, the temperature dependence of the in-plane London penetration depth $\Delta\lambda(T)$, and therefore the superfluid phase stiffness $\lambda^2(0)/\lambda^2(T)$ was measured. Down to 0.4 K, the data do not show the exponential saturation at low temperatures expected from a singly-, fully-gapped superconductor. Rather, both the electron- and the hole-doped systems seem to be best described by a power law behavior, with $\lambda^2(0)/\lambda^2(T)$ $\sim$ $T^n$ and \emph{n} $\approx$ 2.5. In the three samples we studied, a weak feature near the sensitivity limit of our measurements appears near $T/T_\mathrm{c}$ =~0.04, hinting at a corresponding low energy feature in the superconducting density of states. The data can also be relatively well-described by a simple two-gap s-wave model of the order parameter, but this yields parameters which seem unrealistic and dependent on the fit range. Broadband surface resistance measurements reveal a sample dependent residual loss whose origin is unclear. The data from the \FeAs samples can be made to scale as $\omega^2$ if the extrinsic loss is treated as an additive component, indicating large scattering rates. Finally, the temperature dependence of the surface resistance at 13 GHz obeys a power law very similar to those observed for $\Delta\lambda(T)$.

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