Effect of pressure cycling on Iron: Signatures of an electronic instability and unconventional superconductivity

Autor: Yadav, C. S., Seyfarth, G., Pedrazzini, P., Wilhelm, H., Černý, R., Jaccard, D.
Rok vydání: 2013
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.054110
Popis: High pressure electrical resistivity and x-ray diffraction experiments have been performed on Fe single crystals. The crystallographic investigation provides direct evidence that in the martensitic $bcc \rightarrow hcp$ transition at 14 GPa the $\lbrace 110\rbrace_{bcc}$ become the $\lbrace 002\rbrace_{hcp}$ directions. During a pressure cycle, resistivity shows a broad hysteresis of 6.5 GPa, whereas superconductivity, observed between 13 and 31 GPa, remains unaffected. Upon increasing pressure an electronic instability, probably a quantum critical point, is observed at around 19 GPa and, close to this pressure, the superconducting $T_{c}$ and the isothermal resistivity ($0
Databáze: arXiv