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Anomalous pressure effect on the remanent lattice striction of a (La,Pr)SrMnO bilayered manganite single crystal
We have studied the pressure effect on magnetostriction, both in the
-plane and along the c-axis, of a (La,Pr)SrMnO
bilayered manganite single crystal over the temperature region where the
field-induced ferromagnetic metal (FMM) transition takes place. For comparison,
we have also examined the pressure dependence of magnetization curves at the
corresponding temperatures. The applied pressure reduces the critical field of
the FMM transition and it enhances the remanent magnetostriction. An anomalous
pressure effect on the remanent lattice relaxation is observed and is similar
to the pressure effect on the remanent magnetization along the c-axis. These
findings are understood from the view point that the double-exchange
interaction driven FMM state is strengthened by application of pressure.Comment: 7 pages,7 figure
Non-monotonic pressure evolution of the upper critical field in superconducting FeSe
The pressure dependence of the upper critical field, , of
single crystalline FeSe was studied using measurements of the inter-plane
resistivity, in magnetic fields parallel to tetragonal
-axis. curves obtained under hydrostatic pressures up
to GPa, the range over which the superconducting transition temperature,
, of FeSe exhibits a non-monotonic dependence with local maximum
at 0.8 GPa and local minimum at 1.2 GPa. The slope of
the upper critical field at ,
, also
exhibits a non-monotonic pressure dependence with distinct changes at and
. For the slope can be described within multi-band orbital model.
For both the slope is in good quantitative agreement
with a single band, orbital Helfand-Werthamer theory with Fermi velocities
determined from Shubnikov-de Haas measurements. This finding indicates that
Fermi surface changes are responsible for the local minimum of
at 1.2 GPa.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Unconventional superconductivity of NdFeAsO0.82F0.18 indicated by the low temperature dependence of the lower critical field Hc1
We measured the initial M-H curves for a sample of the newly discovered
superconductor NdFeAsO0.82Fe0.18, which had a critical temperature, Tc, of 51
K, and was fabricated at the high pressure of 6 GPa. The lower critical field,
Hc1, was extracted from the deviation point of the Meissner linearity in the
M-H curves, which show linear temperature dependence in the low temperature
region down to 5 K. The Hc1(T) indicates no s-wave superconductivity, but
rather an unconventional superconductivity with a nodal gap structure.
Furthermore, the linearity of Hc1 at low temperature does not hold at high
temperature, but shows other characteristics, indicating that this
superconductor might have multi-gap features. Based on the low temperature
nodal gap structure, we estimate that the maximum gap magnitude delta 0 =
(1.6+- 0.2) kBTc.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Phase equilibria and critical behavior of square‐well fluids of variable width by Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation
The vapor–liquid phase equilibria of square†well systems with hard†sphere diameters σ, well†depths ε, and ranges λ=1.25, 1.375, 1.5, 1.75, and 2 are determined by Monte Carlo simulation. The two bulk phases in coexistence are simulated simultaneously using the Gibbs ensemble technique. Vapor–liquid coexistence curves are obtained for a series of reduced temperatures between about Tr=T/Tc=0.8 and 1, where Tc is the critical temperature. The radial pair distribution functions g(r) of the two phases are calculated during the simulation, and the results extrapolated to give the appropriate contact values g(σ), g(λσ−), and g(λσ+). These are used to calculate the vapor†pressure curves of each system and to test for equality of pressure in the coexisting vapor and liquid phases. The critical points of the square†well fluids are determined by analyzing the density†temperature coexistence data using the first term of a Wegner expansion. The dependence of the reduced critical temperature T* c=kTc/ε, pressure P* c=Pcσ3/ε, number density Ï * c=Ï cσ3, and compressibility factor Z=P/(Ï kT), on the potential range λ, is established. These results are compared with existing data obtained from perturbation theories. The shapes of the coexistence curves and the approach to criticality are described in terms of an apparent critical exponent β. The curves for the square†well systems with λ=1.25, 1.375, 1.5, and 1.75 are very nearly cubic in shape corresponding to near†universal values of β (β≊0.325). This is not the case for the system with a longer potential range; when λ=2, the coexistence curve is closer to quadratic in shape with a near†classical value of β (β≊0.5). These results seem to confirm the view that the departure of β from a mean†field or classical value for temperatures well below critical is unrelated to long†range, near†critical fluctuations
Pressure dependence of upper critical fields in FeSe single crystals
We investigate the pressure dependence of the upper critical fields
({\mu}) for FeSe single crystals with pressure up to 2.57 GPa.
The superconducting (SC) properties show a disparate behavior across a critical
pressure where the pressure-induced antiferromagnetic phase coexists with
superconductivity. The magnetoresistance for and is very
different: for , magnetic field induces and enhances a hump in the
resistivity close to the for pressures higher than 1.2 GPa, while it is
absent for . Since the measured {\mu} for FeSe samples is
smaller than the orbital limited upper critical field ()
estimated by the Werthamer Helfand and Hohenberg (WHH) model, the Maki
parameter ({\alpha}) related to Pauli spin-paramagnetic effects is additionally
considered to describe the temperature dependence of {\mu}().
Interestingly, the {\alpha} value is hardly affected by pressure for ,
while it strongly increases with pressure for . The pressure evolution of
the {\mu}(0)s for the FeSe single crystals is found to be almost
similar to that of (), suggesting that the pressure-induced magnetic
order adversely affects the upper critical fields as well as the SC transition
temperature.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 1 tabl
Pressure and temperature driven phase transitions in HgTe quantum wells
We present theoretical investigations of pressure and temperature driven
phase transitions in HgTe quantum wells grown on CdTe buffer. Using the 8-band
\textbf{kp} Hamiltonian we calculate evolution of energy band structure
at different quantum well width with hydrostatic pressure up to 20 kBar and
temperature ranging up 300 K. In particular, we show that in addition to
temperature, tuning of hydrostatic pressure allows to drive transitions between
semimetal, band insulator and topological insulator phases. Our realistic band
structure calculations reveal that the band inversion under hydrostatic
pressure and temperature may be accompanied by non-local overlapping between
conduction and valence bands. The pressure and temperature phase diagrams are
presented.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures + Supplemental material (5 pages
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