Evidence for two distinct scales of current flow in polycrystalline Sm and Nd iron oxypnictides

Details Evidence for two distinct scales of current flow in polycrystalline Sm and Nd iron oxypnictides Evidence for two distinct scales of current flow in polycrystalline Sm and Nd iron oxypnictides

2008-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0816v1

Supercond. Sci. Technol. vol. 21 no. 095008 (2008) published 4 July 2008

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

28 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-2048/21/9/095008

Early studies have found quasi-reversible magnetization curves in polycrystalline bulk rare-earth iron oxypnictides that suggest either wide-spread obstacles to intergranular current or very weak vortex pinning. In the present study of polycrystalline samarium and neodymium rare-earth iron oxypnictide samples made by high pressure synthesis, the hysteretic magnetization is significantly enhanced. Magneto optical imaging and study of the field dependence of the remanent magnetization as a function of particle size both show that global currents over the whole sample do exist but that the intergranular and intragranular current densities have distinctively different temperature dependences and differ in magnitude by about 1000. Assuming that the highest current density loops are restricted to circulation only within grains leads to values of ~5 MA/cm2 at 5 K and self field, while whole-sample current densities, though two orders of magnitude lower are 1000-10000 A/cm2, some two orders of magnitude higher than in random polycrystalline cuprates. We cannot yet be certain whether this large difference in global and intragrain current density is intrinsic to the oxypnictides or due to extrinsic barriers to current flow, because the samples contain significant second phase, some of which wets the grain boundaries and produces evidences of SNS proximity effect in the whole sample critical current.

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