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Pressure and isotope effect on the anisotropy of MgB$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We analyze the data for the pressure and boron isotope effect on the temperature dependence of the magnetization near TcT_{c}. Invoking the universal scaling relation for the magnetization at fixed magnetic field it is shown that the relative shift of TcT_{c}, induced by pressure or boron isotope exchange, mirrors essentially that of the anisotropy. This uncovers a novel generic property of anisotropic type II superconductors, inexistent in the isotropic case. For MgB2_{2} it implies that the renormalization of the Fermi surface topology due to pressure or isotope exchange is dominated by a mechanism controlling the anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502202,
  title  = {Pressure and isotope effect on the anisotropy of MgB$_{2}$},
  author = {T. Schneider and D. Di Castro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502202},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures