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Size effects in electrical and magnetic properties of quasi-one-dimensional tin wires in asbestos

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Bulk composites have been prepared based on one-dimensional fibers of natural chrisothil-asbestos with various internal diameters (d = 6–2.5 nm) filled with tin. The electrical and magnetic properties of quasi-one-dimensional Sn wires have been studied at low temperatures. The electrical properties have been measured at T = 300 K at a pressure P = 10 kbar. It has been found that the superconducting (SC) characteristics of the nanocomposites (critical temperature T c and critical magnetic field H c) increase as the Sn filament diameter decreases. The temperature spreading of the resistive SC transition also increases as the Sn filament diameter decreases, which is explained by the SC order parameter fluctuations. The size effects (the increase in critical temperature T c and transition width ΔT c) in Sn nanofilaments are well described by the independent Aslamazov–Larkin and Langer–Ambegaokara fluctuation theories, which makes it possible to find the dependence of T c of the diffuse SC transition on the nanowire diameter. Using the temperature and magnetic-field dependences of the magnetic moment M(T, H), it has been found that the superconductor–normal metal phase diagram of the Sn–asbestos nanocomposite has a wider region of the SC state in T and H as compared to the data for bulk Sn. The magnetic properties of chrisotil-asbestos fibers unfilled with Sn have been studied. It has been found that the Curie law is fulfilled and that the superparamagnetism is absent in such samples. The obtained results indicate the absence of magnetically ordered impurities (magnetite) in the chrisotil-asbestos matrix, which allowed one to not consider the problem of the interaction of the magnetic subsystem of the asbestos matrix and the superconducting subsystem of Sn nanowires.

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  1. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    A. V. Chernyaev, D. V. Shamshur, A. V. Fokin, A. E. Kalmykov, Yu. A. Kumzerov, L. M. Sorokin & R. V. Parfen’ev

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Chernyaev, D.V. Shamshur, A.V. Fokin, A.E. Kalmykov, Yu.A. Kumzerov, L.M. Sorokin, R.V. Parfen’ev, A. Lashkul, 2016, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2016, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 443–450.

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Chernyaev, A.V., Shamshur, D.V., Fokin, A.V. et al. Size effects in electrical and magnetic properties of quasi-one-dimensional tin wires in asbestos. Phys. Solid State 58, 454–461 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783416030069

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