Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 2–6, 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session G61: Fe-Based Superconductors - Vortex Properties / Magnetic Superconductors
11:15 AM–2:15 PM,
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B
Sponsoring
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DMP DCMP DCOMP
Chair: Milan Allan, Leiden University
Abstract: G61.00003 : Modification of the Upper Critical Field of RbEuFe4As4 due to Eu-Magnetism*
Presenter:
Ulrich Welp
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
Authors:
Ulrich Welp
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
Alexei Koshelev
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
Roland Willa
(Institute for Theory of Condensed Matter, Karlsruhe institute of Technology)
Clement Burns
(Department of Physics, Western Michigan University)
Matthew S. Cook
(Department of Physics, Western Michigan University)
Jinke Bao
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
Duck Young Chung
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
Mercouri Kanatzidis
(Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)
Wai-Kwong Kwok
(Materials Science Division, Argonne Natl Lab)
ReEuFe4As4 is a Fe-base superconductor with a high transition temperature of Tc~37 K that enters into a magnetic state at 15 K in which Eu-4f moments are helically ordered. In this state, in-plane ferromagnetically ordered Eu-planes undergo 90 deg rotation between layers resulting in a commensurate helix with a period of 4 c-axis lattice constant. This structure is easily polarized in fields of the order of several kOe resulting in a field-induced ferromagnet with a moment of 7 µB/(unit cell) coexisting with superconductivity. Nevertheless, most measurements to date have yielded no or only very weak coupling between superconductivity and magnetism. Using specific heat measurements in fields up to 14 T, we show that the Hc2-line exhibits clear downwards curvature in a temperature range close to Tc where Ginzburg-Landau theory applies, amounting to a shift by δTc ~ 0.4 K in 14 T ||c. This effect can be captured quantitatively in a model in which the exchange fields from the field-induced polarization of the Eu-moments renormalize Tc(H).
*
The work at Argonne National Laboratory was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division. The PPMS used for specific heat measurements was funded by NSF MRI grant 1828387.
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