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Title: Effect of atomic disorder and Ce doping on superconductivity of Ca 3 Rh 4 Sn 13 : Electric transport properties under high pressure

Abstract

We report the observation of a superconducting state below ~ 8 K coexistent with a spin-glass state caused by atomic disorder in Ce substituted Ca3Rh4Sn13. Measurements of specifc heat, resistivity, and magnetism reveal the existence of inhomogeneous superconductivity in samples doped with Ce with superconducting critical temperatures Tc higher than those observed in the parent compound. We also argue that the nominally pure stoichiometric Ca3Rh4Sn13 material is electronically inhomogeneous at the nanoscale. For Ca3Rh4Sn13, the negative value of the change in resistivity p with pressure P, dp/dP correlates well with the calculated decrease in the density of states (DOS) at the Fermi energy with P. Based on band structure calculations performed under pressure, we demonstrate how the change in DOS would affect Tc of Ca3Rh4Sn13 under negative lattice pressure in samples that are strongly defected by quenching

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). Inst. of Physics; Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw (Poland). Centre for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures
  2. Univ. of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). Inst. of Physics
  3. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Program
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1336813
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1256993; OSTI ID: 1361229
Grant/Contract Number:  
NA0002909; NA0001841
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

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Ślebarski, Andrzej, Goraus, Jerzy, Maśka, Maciej M., Witas, P., Fijałkowski, M., Wolowiec, Christian T., Fang, Yuankan, and Maple, Merrill B. Effect of atomic disorder and Ce doping on superconductivity of Ca3Rh4Sn13 : Electric transport properties under high pressure. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.245126.
Ślebarski, Andrzej, Goraus, Jerzy, Maśka, Maciej M., Witas, P., Fijałkowski, M., Wolowiec, Christian T., Fang, Yuankan, & Maple, Merrill B. Effect of atomic disorder and Ce doping on superconductivity of Ca3Rh4Sn13 : Electric transport properties under high pressure. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.245126
Ślebarski, Andrzej, Goraus, Jerzy, Maśka, Maciej M., Witas, P., Fijałkowski, M., Wolowiec, Christian T., Fang, Yuankan, and Maple, Merrill B. Mon . "Effect of atomic disorder and Ce doping on superconductivity of Ca3Rh4Sn13 : Electric transport properties under high pressure". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.245126. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1336813.
@article{osti_1336813,
title = {Effect of atomic disorder and Ce doping on superconductivity of Ca3Rh4Sn13 : Electric transport properties under high pressure},
author = {Ślebarski, Andrzej and Goraus, Jerzy and Maśka, Maciej M. and Witas, P. and Fijałkowski, M. and Wolowiec, Christian T. and Fang, Yuankan and Maple, Merrill B.},
abstractNote = {We report the observation of a superconducting state below ~ 8 K coexistent with a spin-glass state caused by atomic disorder in Ce substituted Ca3Rh4Sn13. Measurements of specifc heat, resistivity, and magnetism reveal the existence of inhomogeneous superconductivity in samples doped with Ce with superconducting critical temperatures Tc higher than those observed in the parent compound. We also argue that the nominally pure stoichiometric Ca3Rh4Sn13 material is electronically inhomogeneous at the nanoscale. For Ca3Rh4Sn13, the negative value of the change in resistivity p with pressure P, dp/dP correlates well with the calculated decrease in the density of states (DOS) at the Fermi energy with P. Based on band structure calculations performed under pressure, we demonstrate how the change in DOS would affect Tc of Ca3Rh4Sn13 under negative lattice pressure in samples that are strongly defected by quenching},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.93.245126},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 24,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (a) X-ray diffraction pattern for the Ca3Rh4Sn13 compound. The green line represents the differences between the blue and red line peak shapes. Inset: The temperature change of the (422) and (430) XRD lines between 12 K and 300 K. There was no change of dhkl vs T, characteristicmore » of the structural phase transition. (b) Tc and the lattice parameter a for Ca3Rh4Sn13 plotted against different quenching temperatures TQ. The data at TQ = 505, 679, and 804 °C are taken from Ref. 14. Temperature Tc = 4.8 K and the room temperature lattice parameter a = 9.6991 Å for the arc-melted sample are expected at TQ ∼ 2000 K. (c) The lattice parameter, a, plotted against Ce concentration, x, for the Ca3−xCexRh4Sn13 system. The dotted line is a linear fit to the data.« less

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