Anomalous Meissner effect in pnictide superconductors

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2010-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4695v1

Phys. Rev. B 82, 180513 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.180513

The Meissner effect has been studied in Ba(Fe0.926Co0.074)2As2 and Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 single crystals and compared to well known, type-II superconductors LuNi2B2C and V3Si. Whereas flux penetration is mostly determined by the bulk pinning (and, perhaps, surface barrier) resulting in a large negative magnetization, the flux expulsion upon cooling in a magnetic field is very small, which could also be due to pinning and/or surface barrier effects. However, in stark contrast with the expected behavior, the amount of the expelled flux increases almost linearly with the applied magnetic field, at least up to our maximum field of 5.5 T, which far exceeds the upper limit for the surface barrier. One interpretation of the observed behavior is that there is a field-driven suppression of magnetic pair-breaking.

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