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Calorimetric Evidence for Nodes in the Overdoped Ba(Fe$_{0.9}$Co$_{0.1}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2011-05-17 v1

Abstract

We present low-temperature specific heat of the electron-doped Ba(Fe0.9_{0.9}Co0.1_{0.1})2_{2}As2_{2}, which does not show any indication of an upturn down to 400 mK, the lowest measuring temperature. The lack of a Schottky-like feature at low temperatures or in magnetic fields up to 9 Tesla enables us to identify enhanced low-temperature quasiparticle excitations and to study anisotropy in the linear term of the specific heat. Our results can not be explained by a single or multiple isotropic superconducting gap, but are consistent with multi-gap superconductivity with nodes on at least one Fermi surface sheet.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4808,
  title  = {Calorimetric Evidence for Nodes in the Overdoped Ba(Fe$_{0.9}$Co$_{0.1}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$},
  author = {Dong-Jin Jang and A. B. Vorontsov and I. Vekhter and K. Gofryk and Z. Yang and S. Ju and J. B. Hong and J. H. Han and Y. S. Kwon and F. Ronning and J. D. Thompson and Tuson Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4808},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages 4 figures