Significant enhancement of upper critical fields by doping and strain in iron-based superconductors
C. Tarantini, A. Gurevich, J. Jaroszynski, F. Balakirev, E. Bellingeri, I. Pallecchi, C. Ferdeghini, B. Shen, H. H. Wen, D. C. Larbalestier
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.184522 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We report measurements up to 85 Tesla of the upper critical fields Hc2(T) on Ba1−xKxAs2Fe2 single crystals and FeSe1−xTex films tuned by doping and strain. We observed an Hc2 enhancement by more than 25 T at low temperatures for the optimally doped Ba1−xKxAs2Fe2 as compared to the previous measurements and extraordinarily high slopes of dHc2/dT = 250–500 T/K near Tc in FeSe1−xTex, indicating almost-complete suppression of orbital pair breaking. Theoretical analysis of Hc2(T) suggests an inhomogeneous Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state below 10K for H//ab in the optimally doped Ba1−xKxAs2Fe2 and below 3K for H//c and 9K for H//ab in FeSe1−xTex. The analysis also shows that Hc2 in a multiband Fe-based superconductor can be significantly enhanced by doping and strain by shrinking and expanding different pockets of the Fermi surface, which can be more effective than the conventional way of increasing Hc2 by nonmagnetic impurities.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ba1-xKxFe2As2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 38.4 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
| Ba1-xKxFe2As2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 28.2 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
| Ba1-xKxFe2As2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 11.7 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
| FeSe0.5Te0.5 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 16.2 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| FeSe0.5Te0.5 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 18.2 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
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