Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2011-01-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
7 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
Resistivity r(T), Hall coefficient RH(T), superconducting temperature Tc, and the slope of the upper critical field -dHc2/dT were studied in poly- and single-crystalline samples of the Fe-based superconductor Lu2Fe3Si5 irradiated by fast neutrons. Atomic disordering induced by the neutron irradiation leads to a fast suppression of Tc similarly to the case of doping of Lu2Fe3Si5 with magnetic (Dy) and non-magnetic (Sc, Y) impurities. The same effect was observed in a novel FeAs-based superconductor La(O-F)FeAs after irradiation. Such behavior is accounted for by strong pair breaking that is traceable to scattering at non-magnetic impurities or radiation defects in unconventional superconductors. In such superconductors the sign of the order parameter changes between the different Fermi sheets (s+- model). Some relations that are specified for the properties of the normal and superconducting states in high-temperature superconductors are also observed in Lu2Fe3Si5. The first is the relationship -dHc2/dT ~ Tc, instead of the one expected for dirty superconductors -dHc2/dT ~ r0. The second is a correlation between the low-temperature linear coefficient a in the resistivity r = r0 + a1T, which appears presumably due to the scattering at magnetic fluctuations, and Tc; this correlation being an evidence of a tight relation between the superconductivity and magnetism. The data point to an unconventional (non-fononic) mechanism of superconductivity in Lu2Fe3Si5, and, probably, in some other Fe-based compounds, which can be fruitfully studied via the radiation-induced disordering.
Akshentsev Yu. N.
Goshchitskii B. N.
Karkin A. E.
Yangirov M. R.
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