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Pressure dependence of upper critical fields in FeSe single crystals

Superconductivity 2016-02-15 v1

Abstract

We investigate the pressure dependence of the upper critical fields ({\mu}0_0HHc2_{c2}) for FeSe single crystals with pressure up to 2.57 GPa. The superconducting (SC) properties show a disparate behavior across a critical pressure where the pressure-induced antiferromagnetic phase coexists with superconductivity. The magnetoresistance for H//abH//ab and H//cH//c is very different: for H//cH//c, magnetic field induces and enhances a hump in the resistivity close to the TcT_c for pressures higher than 1.2 GPa, while it is absent for H//abH//ab. Since the measured {\mu}0_0HHc2_{c2} for FeSe samples is smaller than the orbital limited upper critical field (HHorb^{orb}c2_{c2}) estimated by the Werthamer Helfand and Hohenberg (WHH) model, the Maki parameter ({\alpha}) related to Pauli spin-paramagnetic effects is additionally considered to describe the temperature dependence of {\mu}0_0HHc2_{c2}(TT). Interestingly, the {\alpha} value is hardly affected by pressure for H//abH//ab, while it strongly increases with pressure for H//cH//c. The pressure evolution of the {\mu}0_0HHc2_{c2}(0)s for the FeSe single crystals is found to be almost similar to that of TcT_c(PP), suggesting that the pressure-induced magnetic order adversely affects the upper critical fields as well as the SC transition temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03948,
  title  = {Pressure dependence of upper critical fields in FeSe single crystals},
  author = {Ji-Hoon Kang and Soon-Gil Jung and Sangyun Lee and Eunsung Park and Jiunn-Yuan Lin and Dmitriy A Chareev and Alexander N Vasiliev and Tuson Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03948},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table