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Low temperature specific heat of 12442-type KCa_2Fe_4As_4F_2 single crystals

Superconductivity 2020-06-09 v2

Abstract

Low-temperature specific heat (SH) is measured for the 12442-type KCa2_2Fe4_4As4_4F2_2 single crystal under different magnetic fields. A clear SH jump with the height of ΔC/TTc\Delta C/T|_{T_c} = 130 mJ/mol K2^2 is observed at the superconducting transition temperature TcT_c. It is found that the electronic SH coefficient Δγ(H)\Delta\gamma (H) quickly increases when the field is in the low-field region below 3 T and then considerably slows down the increase with a further increase in the field, which indicates a rather strong anisotropy or multi-gap feature with a small minimum in the superconducting gap(s). The temperature-dependent SH data indicates the presence of the T2T^2 term, which supplies further information and supports the picture with a line-nodal gap structure. Moreover, the onset point of the SH transition remains almost unchanged under the field as high as 9 T, which is similar to that observed in cuprates, and placed this system in the middle between the BCS limit and the Bose-Einstein condensation.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09447,
  title  = {Low temperature specific heat of 12442-type KCa_2Fe_4As_4F_2 single crystals},
  author = {Teng Wang and Jianan Chu and Jiaxin Feng and Lingling Wang and Xuguang Xu and Wei Li and Hai-Hu Wen and Xiaosong Liu and Gang Mu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09447},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy