Low-temperature specific heat (SH) is measured for the 12442-type KCa2Fe4As4F2 single crystal under different magnetic fields. A clear SH jump with the height of ΔC/T∣Tc = 130 mJ/mol K2 is observed at the superconducting transition temperature Tc. It is found that the electronic SH coefficient Δγ(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 T2 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.
@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