Scaling between magnetic field and temperature in the high-temperature superconductor BaFe2(As1₋xPx)2

Hayes, Ian M.; McDonald, Ross D.; Breznay, Nicholas P.; Helm, Toni; Moll, Philip J.  W.; Wartenbe, Mark; Shekhter, Arkady; Analytis, James G.

doi:10.1038/nphys3773

Scaling between magnetic field and temperature in the high-temperature superconductor BaFe₂(As_1₋xPx)₂

Journal Article · Mon May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3773· OSTI ID:1512736

Hayes, Ian M. ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[1]; Helm, Toni ^[3]; Moll, Philip J. W. ^[3]; Wartenbe, Mark ^[4]; Shekhter, Arkady ^[4]; Analytis, James G. ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

Many exotic metallic systems have a resistivity that varies linearly with temperature, and the physics behind this is thought to be connected to high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates and iron pnictides^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}. Although this phenomenon has attracted considerable attention, it is unclear how the relevant physics manifests in other transport properties, for example their response to an applied magnetic field. We report measurements of the high-field magnetoresistance of the iron pnictide superconductor BaFe₂(As_1₋xPx)₂ and find that it obeys an unusual scaling relationship between applied magnetic field and temperature, with a conversion factor given simply by the ratio of the Bohr magneton and the Boltzmann constant. This implies that magnetic fields probe the same physics that gives rise to the T-linear resistivity, providing a new experimental clue to this long-standing puzzle.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC). Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

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OSTI ID:: 1512736

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1530254

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--17-22705

Journal Information:: Nature Physics, Journal Name: Nature Physics Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 12; ISSN 1745-2473

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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