Heat capacity study of BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$: effects of annealing

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2010-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2967v2

Physical Review B 82, 144525, 2010

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.144525

Heat-capacity, X-ray diffraction, and resistivity measurements on a high-quality BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ sample show an evolution of the magneto-structural transition with successive annealing periods. After a 30-day anneal the resistivity in the (ab) plane decreases by more than an order of magnitude, to 12 $\mu\Omega$cm, with a residual resistance ratio $\sim$36; the heat-capacity anomaly at the transition sharpens, to an overall width of less than K, and shifts from 135.4 to 140.2 K. The heat-capacity anomaly in both the as-grown sample and after the 30-day anneal shows a hysteresis of $\sim$0.15 K, and is unchanged in a magnetic field $\mu_{0}$H = 14 T. The X-ray and heat-capacity data combined suggest that there is a first order jump in the structural order parameter. The entropy of the transition is reported.

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