Double-percolation and magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet-superconductor nanoparticle composites

Details Double-percolation and magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet-superconductor nanoparticle composites Double-percolation and magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet-superconductor nanoparticle composites

2011-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/1106.2862v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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We investigate transport and magnetotransport properties of binary networks composed of superconducting (MgB2) and ferromagnetic (CrO2 or LSMO) nanoparticles. While for the LSMO/MgB2 system a single percolation threshold is observed, for CrO2/MgB2 binary composites an anomalously high resistance state with two distinct percolation thresholds corresponding to conductor-insulator and superconductor-insulator transitions is found. The existence of this double percolation effect becomes possible when the interface conductance between the two different constituents is suppressed and the condition for the two thresholds PI + PII > 1 is satisfied. For MgB2 an unusually large value of the threshold is observed, which can be explained by the significant geometric disparity between nanoparticles of the two constituents, resulting in a large excluded volume for MgB2 nanoparticles. The scaling behavior near both thresholds is determined, with the two critical exponents identified: \mu \approx 2.16 \pm 0.15 for the insulating-conducting transition on the CrO2 side and s = 1.37\pm 0.05 for the insulating - superconducting transition on the MgB2 side. We also measure the magnetoresistance for the entire series of CrO2/MgB2 samples, with a maximum of approximately 45% observed near the percolation threshold at liquid He temperatures.

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