Abstract

Thermodynamic (specific heat, reversible magnetization, tunneling spectroscopy) and transport measurements have been performed on high quality (K,Ba)BiO3_3 single crystals. The temperature dependence of the magnetic field HCpH_{Cp} corresponding to the onset of the specific heat anomaly presents a clear positive curvature. HCpH_{Cp} is significantly smaller than the field HΔH_\Delta for which the superconducting gap vanishes but is closely related to the irreversibility line deduced from transport data. Moreover, the temperature dependence of the reversible magnetization present a strong deviation from the Ginzburg--Landau theory emphasazing the peculiar nature of the superconducting transition in this material.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 28 reference

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