The upper critical field in superconducting MgB_2

Details The upper critical field in superconducting MgB_2 The upper critical field in superconducting MgB_2

2001-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102517v1

J. Alloys & Comp. 322 (2001) L10.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages with 4 figures

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The upper critical field Hc2(T) of sintered pellets of the recently discovered MgB_2 superconductor was investigated in magnetic fields up to 16 T. The upper critical field of the major fraction of the investigated sample was determined from ac susceptibility and resistance data and was found to increase up to Hc2(0) = 13 T at T = 0 corresponding to a coherence length of 5.0 nm. A small fraction of the sample exhibits higher upper critical fields which were measured both resistively and by dc magnetization measurements. The temperature dependence of the upper critical field, Hc2(T), shows a positive curvature near Tc and at intermediate temperatures. This positive curvature of Hc2(T) is similar to that found for the borocarbides YNi_2B_2C and LuNi_2B_2C indicating that MgB_2 is in the clean limit.

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