Caloric Determination of the Upper Critical Fields and Anisotropy of NdFeAsO1-xFx Single Crystals

Details Caloric Determination of the Upper Critical Fields and Anisotropy of NdFeAsO1-xFx Single Crystals Caloric Determination of the Upper Critical Fields and Anisotropy of NdFeAsO1-xFx Single Crystals

2008-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4196v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

15 pages with 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.140510

We present heat capacity measurements of the upper critical fields of single-crystal NdFeAsO1-xFx. In zero-magnetic field a clear step in the heat capacity is observed at Tc = 47K . In fields applied perpendicular to the FeAs-layers the step broadens significantly whereas for the in-plane orientation the field effects are small. This behavior is reminiscent of the CuO2-high-Tc superconductors and is a manifestation of pronounced fluctuation effects. Using an entropy conserving construction we determine the transition temperatures in applied fields and the upper critical field slopes of dHc2,a = -0.72 T/K and dHc2,ab = -3.1 T/K. Zero-temperature coherence lengths of xiab = 3.7 nm and xic = 0.9 nm and a modest superconducting anisotropy of gamma ~ 4 can be deduced in a single-band model.

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