← Back to search

Investigation of the influence of a magnetic field on the chemical potential of electrons in superconducting and ferromagnetic thin films

V. I. Nizhankovskii, S. G. Zybtsev

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.1111 · Physical Review B

T1

Active bibliographic source — not scientific approval

Bibliographic access preserves source history; it does not approve extracted materials or validate reported claims. Review warnings on each occurrence separately.

Abstract

It is experimentally shown that measurements of the chemical-potential variation in a magnetic field could give valuable information about the magnetization of thin films. For superconducting single-crystal YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films two kinds of behavior of μ(H) were observed depending on the substrate used. For films deposited on polished NdGaO3 single-crystal substrates the change of μ was mainly reversible. That means that no magnetic flux was trapped during a magnetic-field sweep. For films deposited on MgO, SrTiO3, and LaAlO3 single-crystal substrates μ changed irreversibly. The estimated critical current density is jc∼107 A/cm2 at T=4.2 K in both cases. Oscillations of μ in films evaporated on cleaved MgO substrates were observed. The effect of a magnetic field on μ in a ferromagnetic film, predicted 60 years ago, was confirmed.

Source-reported materials — not catalogue approval

FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
YBa2Cu3O7-δ

Archive — visibility unverified

Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.

—Pressure not reportedunknown

Similar papers