Anisotropic thermodynamic and transport properties of single-crystalline
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· Physical Review B
- Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab.
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics
We grew single-crystalline, single-phase CaKFe4As4 out of a high-temperature, quaternary melt. Temperature-dependent measurements of x-ray diffraction, anisotropic electrical resistivity, elastoresistivity, thermoelectric power, Hall effect, magnetization, and specific heat, combined with field-dependent measurements of electrical resistivity and field and pressure-dependent measurements of magnetization indicate that CaKFe4As4 is an ordered, stoichiometric, Fe-based superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature, Tc=35.0±0.2 K. Other than superconductivity, there is no indication of any other phase transition for 1.8K≤T≤300 K. All of these thermodynamic and transport data reveal striking similarities to those found for optimally or slightly overdoped (Ba1-xKx)Fe2As2, suggesting that stoichiometric CaKFe4As4 is intrinsically close to what is referred to as “optimal-doped” on a generalized, Fe-based superconductor, phase diagram. Furthermore, the anisotropic superconducting upper critical field, Hc2(T), of CaKFe4As4 was determined up to 630 kOe. The anisotropy parameter γ(T)=H$$⊥\atop{c2}$$/H$$∥\atop{c2}$$, for H applied perpendicular and parallel to the c axis, decreases from ≃2.5 at Tc to ≃1.5 at 25 K, which can be explained by interplay of paramagnetic pair breaking and orbital effects. The slopes of dH$$∥\atop{c2}$$/dT≃-44 kOe/K and dH$$⊥\atop{c2}$$/dT≃-109 kOe/K at Tc yield an electron mass anisotropy of m⊥/m∥≃1/6 and short Ginzburg-Landau coherence lengths ξ∥(0)≃5.8Å and ξ⊥(0)≃14.3Å. Finally, the value of H$$⊥\atop{c2}$$(0) can be extrapolated to ≃920 kOe, well above the BCS paramagnetic limit.
- Research Organization:
- Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02-07CH11358
- OSTI ID:
- 1326848
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1338222
OSTI ID: 1280184
- Report Number(s):
- IS--J 9081
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 94; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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