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Upper Critical and Irreversibility Fields in Ba(Fe0.92Co0.08)2As2 and Ba(Fe0.91Co0.09)2As2 Pnictide Bulk Superconductors

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A comprehensive study of upper critical and irreversibility magnetic fields in Ba(Fe0.92Co0.08)2As2 and Ba(Fe0.91Co0.09)2As2 polycrystalline bulk pnictide superconductors was made in pulsed fields of up to 65 T. The full-magnetic field-temperature (H−T) phase diagrams, starting at 1.5 K, were obtained. Possible multi-band structure of these materials is lumped into effective parameters of the single-band model. The higher temperature, upper critical field H c2 data is well described by the one-band Werthamer–Helfand–Hohenberg (WHH) model. The large values of the Maki parameter (6.5 and 4.4) indicate that the Zeeman pair breaking dominates over the orbital pair breaking and spin-paramagnetic pair-breaking effect is significant in these materials. The fitted WHH curve departs from the experimental data at low temperatures, particularly for the Ba(Fe0.91Co0.09)2As2 sample, suggesting an emergence of a new phase that can be attributed to the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. The H c2 temperature behavior can be described within a single-band model used in WHH with added finite-Q dependence to introduce FFLO instability. The anisotropy in the behavior of the upper critical field could also explain the data.

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A portion of this work was performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which is supported by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. DMR-1157490, the Department of Energy and the State of Florida.

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    Martin Nikolo & Dmitry Solenov

  2. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    John Singleton

  3. Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA

    Jianyi Jiang, Jeremy D. Weiss & Eric E. Hellstrom

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Nikolo, M., Singleton, J., Solenov, D. et al. Upper Critical and Irreversibility Fields in Ba(Fe0.92Co0.08)2As2 and Ba(Fe0.91Co0.09)2As2 Pnictide Bulk Superconductors. J Supercond Nov Magn 30, 561–568 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-016-3727-4

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