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Spin-dependent conductivity of iron-based superconductors in a magnetic field
We report the results of a study of magnetic field features of electron
transport in heterojunctions with NS boundary inside iron-based
superconductors, represented by a binary phase of - FeSe and
oxyarsenide pnictide LaO(F)FeAs. We used the ability of self magnetic field of
the transport current to partially destroy superconductivity, no matter how low
the field may be, in the NS interface area, where, due to the proximity effect,
the superconducting order parameter, , disperses from 1 to 0 within the
scale of the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length. The following features of
transport were found:(i) at , magnetoresistance in systems with
different superconductors has different sign;(ii) sign and magnitude of the
magnetoresistance depend on the magnitude of current and temperature, and (iii)
in all operating modes where the contribution from Andreev reflection is
suppressed (),the hysteresis of the magnetoresistance
is present. Based on the results of the experiment and analysis it has been
concluded that there is along-range magnetic order in th eground normal state
of the iron-based superconductors studied, in the presence of itinerant
magnetism of conduction electrons which determines the possibility of
anisotropic spin-dependent exchange interaction with the local magnetic moments
of the ions.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Highly mobile carriers in orthorhombic phases of iron-based superconductors FeSeS
The field and temperature dependencies of the longitudinal and Hall
resistivity have been measured for FeSeS (x=0.04, 0.09 and
0.19) single crystals. The sample FeSeS does not show a
transition to an orthorhombic phase and exhibits at low temperatures the
transport properties quite different from those of orthorhombic samples. The
behavior of FeSeS is well described by the simple two
band model with comparable values of hole and electron mobility. In particular,
at low temperatures the transverse resistance shows a linear field dependence,
the magnetoresistance follow a quadratic field dependence and obeys to Kohler's
rule. In contrast, Kohler's rule is strongly violated for samples having an
orthorhombic low temperature structure. However, the transport properties of
the orthorhombic samples can be satisfactory described by the three band model
with the pair of almost equivalent to the tetragonal sample hole and electron
bands, supplemented with the highly mobile electron band which has two order
smaller carrier number. Therefore, the peculiarity of the low temperature
transport properties of the orthorhombic Fe(SeS) samples, as probably of many
other orthorhombic iron superconductors, is due to the presence of a small
number of highly mobile carriers which originate from the local regions of the
Fermi surface, presumably, nearby the Van Hove singularity points
Acoustic characteristics of FeSe single crystals Acoustic characteristics of FeSe single crystals
The results of the comprehensive ultrasonic research of high quality single
crystals of FeSe are presented. Absolute values of sound velocities and their
temperature dependences were measured; elastic constants and Debye temperature
were calculated. The elastic C11-C12 and C11 constants undergo significant
softening under the structural tetra-ortho transformation. The significant
influence of the superconducting transition on the velocity and attenuation of
sound was revealed and the value of the superconducting energy gap was
estimated.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
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
Magnetotransport properties of FeSe in fields up to 50T
Magnetotransport properties of the high-quality FeSe crystal, measured in a
wide temperature range and in magnetic fields up to 50 T, show the symmetry of
the main holelike and electronlike bands in this compound. In addition to the
main two bands, there is also a tiny, highly mobile, electronlike band which is
responsible for the non-linear behavior of (B) at low temperatures
and some other peculiarities of FeSe. We observe the inversion of the
temperature coeficient at a magnetic field higher than about 20 T
which is an implicit conformation of the electron-hole symmetry in the main
bands.Comment: MISM 201
Majority carrier type inversion in FeSe family and "doped semimetal" scheme in iron-based superconductors
The field and temperature dependencies of the longitudinal and Hall
resistivity have been studied for high-quality FeSeS (x up to
0.14) single crystals. Quasiclassical analysis of the obtained data indicates a
strong variation of the electron and hole concentrations under the studied
isovalent substitution and proximity of FeSe to the point of the majority
carrier-type inversion. On this basis, we propose a `doped semimetal' scheme
for the superconducting phase diagram of the FeSe family, which can be applied
to other iron-based superconductors. In this scheme, the two local maxima of
the superconducting temperature can be associated with the Van Hove
singularities of a simplified semi-metallic electronic structure. The
multicarrier analysis of the experimental data also reveals the presence of a
tiny and highly mobile electron band for all the samples studied. Sulfur
substitution in the studied range leads to a decrease in the number of mobile
electrons by more than ten times, from about 3\% to about 0.2\%. This behavior
may indicate a successive change of the Fermi level position relative to
singular points of the electronic structure which is consistent with the `doped
semimetal' scheme. The scattering time for mobile carriers does not depend on
impurities, which allows us to consider this group as a possible source of
unusual acoustic properties of FeSe
The superconducting gaps in FeSe studied by soft point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy
FeSe single crystals have been studied by soft point-contact
Andreev-reflection spectroscopy. Superconducting gap features in the
differential resistance dV/dI(V) of point contacts such as a characteristic
Andreev-reflection double-minimum structure have been measured versus
temperature and magnetic field. Analyzing dV/dI within the extended two-gap
Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model allows to extract both the temperature and
magnetic field dependence of the superconducting gaps. The temperature
dependence of both gaps is close to the standard BCS behavior. Remarkably, the
magnitude of the double-minimum structure gradually vanishes in magnetic field,
while the minima position only slightly shifts with field indicating a weak
decrease of the superconducting gaps. Analyzing the dV/dI(V) spectra for 25
point contacts results in the averaged gap values = 1.8+/-0.4meV and
=1.0+/-0.2 meV and reduced values 2/kTc=4.2+/-0.9 and
2/kTc=2.3+/-0.5 for the large (L) and small (S) gap, respectively.
Additionally, the small gap contribution was found to be within tens of percent
decreasing with both temperature and magnetic field. No signatures in the dV/dI
spectra were observed testifying a gapless superconductivity or presence of
even smaller gaps.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figs., 3 tables. Shortened version without fig.4 and Table
3 is accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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