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Pressure-Induced Superconductivity from Doping-Induced Antiferromagnetic Phase of 112-type Ca$_{1-x}$La$_{x}$FeAs$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2017-11-02 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The effects of pressure on antiferromagnetic (AFM) and superconducting phase transitions of 112-type Ca1x_{1-x}Lax_{x}FeAs2_{2} were studied, and the in-plane electrical resistivity ρab\rho_{ab} was measured with an indenter-type pressure cell. The AFM phase transition temperatures of TNT_{\rm N} = 47, 63, and 63 K at ambient pressure for xx = 0.18, 0.21, and 0.26 was suppressed by applying pressure PP, with superconductivity emerging at critical pressures of PcP_{\rm c} \simeq 0, 1.5, and 3.4 GPa, respectively. Correspondingly, the slope of TNT_{\rm N} against PP decreased as dTN/PdT_{\rm N}/P \simeq -15 and -2 K/GPa for xx = 0.21 and 0.26, respectively. Thus, although the AFM phase was stabilized with La doping xx, the AFM phase was suppressed by pressure, and superconductivity eventually emerged.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00252,
  title  = {Pressure-Induced Superconductivity from Doping-Induced Antiferromagnetic Phase of 112-type Ca$_{1-x}$La$_{x}$FeAs$_{2}$},
  author = {Shunsaku Kitagawa and Taishi Sekiya and Yo Fujiyoshi and Shingo Araki and Tatsuo C. Kobayashi and Naoki Nishimoto and Tasuku Mizukami and Satoshi Ioka and Kazunori Fujimura and Kazutaka Kudo and Minoru Nohara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00252},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, Note added after publication: We noticed a paper by Yazhou Zhou et al. [Science Bulletin, 62, 857(2017)] reporting the pressure-induced superconductivity in the 112 system