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Upper critical field of KFe2As2 under pressure: A test for the change in the superconducting gap structure
Physical Review B
  • Valentin Taufour, Iowa State University
  • Neda Foroozani, Washington University in St Louis
  • Makariy A. Tanatar, Iowa State University
  • Jinhyuk Lim, Washington University in St Louis
  • Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, Iowa State University
  • Stella K. Kim, Iowa State University
  • Yong Liu, Iowa State University
  • Thomas A. Lograsso, Iowa State University
  • Vladimir G. Kogan, Iowa State University
  • Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University
  • Sergey L. Bud'ko, Iowa State University
  • James S. Schilling, Washington University in St Louis
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-25-2014
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.89.220509
Abstract
ARTICLE TEXTSUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALREFERENCES ABSTRACT We report measurements of electrical resistivity under pressure to 5.8 GPa, magnetization to 6.7 GPa, and ac susceptibility to 7.1 GPa in KFe2As2. The previously reported change of slope in the pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature Tc(p) at a pressure p∗∼1.8 GPa is confirmed, and Tc(p) is found to be nearly constant above p∗ up to 7.1 GPa. The T−p phase diagram is very sensitive to the pressure conditions as a consequence of the anisotropic uniaxial pressure dependence of Tc. Across p∗, a change in the behavior of the upper critical field is revealed through a scaling analysis of the slope of Hc2 with the effective mass as determined from the Acoefficient of the T2 term of the temperature-dependent resistivity. We show that this scaling provides a quantitative test for the changes of the superconducting gap structure and suggests the development of a kz modulation of the superconducting gap above p∗ as a most likely explanation.
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This article is from Physical Review B 89 (2014): 220509(R), doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.220509. Posted with permission.

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American Physical Society
Language
en
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Citation Information
Valentin Taufour, Neda Foroozani, Makariy A. Tanatar, Jinhyuk Lim, et al.. "Upper critical field of KFe2As2 under pressure: A test for the change in the superconducting gap structure" Physical Review B Vol. 89 (2014) p. 220509(R)
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