Superconductivity at 33 K in Sr2VO3FeAs is completely suppressed by small amounts of V-doping in Sr2VO3[Fe0.93(+/-0.01)V0.07(+/-0.01)]As. The crystal structures and exact stoichiometries are determined by combined neutron- and x-ray powder diffraction. Sr2VO3FeAs is shown to be very sensitive to Fe/V mixing, which interferes with or even suppresses superconductivity. This inhomogeneity may be intrinsic and explains scattered reports regarding Tc and reduced superconducting phase fractions in Sr2VO3FeAs. Neutron diffraction data collected at 4 K indicates incommensurate mag- netic ordering of the V-sublattice with a propagation vector q = (0,0,0.306). This suggests strongly correlated vanadium, which does not contribute significantly to the Fermi surface of Sr2VO3FeAs.
@article{arxiv.1008.2687,
title = {Suppression of superconductivity by V-doping and possible magnetic order in Sr2VO3FeAs},
author = {Marcus Tegel and Tanja Schmid and Tobias Stürzer and Masamitsu Egawa and Yixi Su and Anatoliy Senyshyn and Dirk Johrendt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2687},
year = {2010}
}
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text revised, magnetic q-vector added, one reference added 4 pages, 4 figures