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KFe2As2: coexistence of superconductivity and local moment derived spin-glass

Superconductivity 2012-03-08 v1

Abstract

High-quality KFe2As2 single crystals have been studied by transport, magnetization and low-T specific heat measurements. Their analysis shows that superconductivity occurs (in some cases coexists) in the vicinity of disordered magnetic phases (Griffiths and spin-glass type) depending of the amount of local magnetic moments (probably excess Fe derived)and sample inhomogeneity. The achieved phenomenological description of our data including also data from the literature provides a consistent explanation of the observed non-Fermi-liquid behavior and of the nominally large experimental Sommerfeld coefficient gamma_n about 94 mJ/mol K^2. We suggest that the intrinsic value (directly related to the itinerant quasi-particles) gamma_el about 60(10)mJ/mol K^2 is significantly reduced compared with gamma_n. Then an enhanced relative jump of the electronic specific heat Delta C_el/gamma_el T_c about 0.8 and a weak total electron-boson coupling constant lambda less or about 1 follow.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1585,
  title  = {KFe2As2: coexistence of superconductivity and local moment derived spin-glass},
  author = {V. Grinenko and M. Abdel-Hafiez and S. Aswartham and A. U. B. Wolter-Giraud and C. Hess and M. Kumar and S. Wurmehl and K. Nenkov and G. Fuchs and B. Holzapfel and S. -L. Drechsler and B. Buechner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1585},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures (including supplement)