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Reentrant superconductivity in \(\hbox {YBa}_{2}\hbox {Cu}_{3}\hbox {O}_{7-\delta }\) microstructured particles

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A reentrant superconducting effect was observed in YBCO particles as a consequence of their size and microstructure. It rises from the coexistence between bulk superconductivity and surface ferromagnetism, where the enhanced magneto-electric coupling induced by broken spatial-inversion symmetry in layers near structural defects plays a very important role on surface ferromagnetism. The study assumes grain boundaries inside the particles act as additional surface regions that enhance the ferromagnetic properties. Magnetic and superconducting properties as a function of particle size were studied. Particularly, the 385 nm particles which were the ones that exhibited the reentrant superconducting effect. The Ginzburg–Landau parameter and the critical temperatures are \(\textit{k}\sim 1.29 \pm .03, T _{c1}= 92 \pm 0.5\hbox { K}\), and \(T_{{c2}} \approx 10 \pm 3{\text{ K}}\).

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by DGAPA-UNAM project IT100217 and CONACyT project 254280. Rodolfo E. López-Romero thanks to CONACyT-México for scholarship, Dr. F. Ascencio and R. Herrera for their help in DLS technique, Dr. F. Morales for their significant comments and Ana K. Bobadilla for helium supplies. We thanks to A. López and A. Pompa García for technical support.

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The funding from the Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [Project No. IT100217]. The funding from the project 254280 supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT-México).

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REL synthesized the samples and performed measurements. REL wrote the manuscript with the support of DYM and RE. All authors discussed the manuscript content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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López-Romero, R.E., Medina, D.Y. & Escudero, R. Reentrant superconductivity in \(\hbox {YBa}_{2}\hbox {Cu}_{3}\hbox {O}_{7-\delta }\) microstructured particles. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 9622–9629 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03505-5

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