Possible quantum phase transition in partially Cu-doped ZrNi 2-x Cu x Ga Heusler alloys

Khan, Mahmud; Stillwell, Kyra; Reese, Brandon; Bhatt, Subhash; Pathak, Arjun K.

doi:10.1063/9.0000263

Title: Possible quantum phase transition in partially Cu-doped ZrNi _2-x Cu _x Ga Heusler alloys

Journal Article · 01 March 2022 · AIP Advances

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000263 · OSTI ID:1855513

^[1]; Stillwell, Kyra ^[1]; Reese, Brandon ^[1];

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Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA
Department of Physics, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, New York 14222, USA

We have studied the magneto-transport properties of a series of ZrNi _{2- x} Cu _x Ga compounds. For all Cu concentration ( x ≤ 0.5) the samples exhibited the L2 ₁ cubic structure at room temperature and demonstrated superconductivity below 2 K. A superconducting phase transition temperature of as low as ∼1 K and a critical magnetic field of 1.78 T was observed in the system. A linear extrapolation of T _C to T = 0 highly indicated that a stoichiometry-dependent superconducting quantum phase transition may occur in ZrNi _2-x Cu _x Ga at x _c = 0.90.

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