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cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 14 cited

Andreev nanoprobe of half-metallic CrO films using superconducting cuprate tips

C. S. Turel, I. J. Guilaran, P. Xiong +1

Superconducting tips of YBaCuO were used to perform point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy on half-metallic CrO thin films. At 4.2K, strong suppre…

cond-mat.supr-con2011

Strong electron-lattice coupling as the mechanism behind charge densiy wave transformations in transition-metal-dichalkogenides

Lev P. Gor'kov

We consider single band of conduction electrons interacting with displacements of the transitional ions.In the classical regime strong coupling transforms the harmonic elastic ener…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 2 cited

Geometric phases of d-wave vortices in a model of lattice fermions

Zhenyu Zhou, Oskar Vafek, Alexander Seidel

We study the local and topological features of Berry phases associated with the adiabatic transport of vortices in a d-wave superconductor of lattice fermions. At half filling, whe…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 159 cited

Significant enhancement of upper critical fields by doping and strain in Fe-based superconductors

C. Tarantini, A. Gurevich, J. Jaroszynski +7

We report measurements of Hc2(T) up to 85 Tesla on Ba1-xKxAs2Fe2 single crystals and FeSe1-xTex films tuned by doping and strain. We observed an Hc2 enhancement by nearly 25 T at 3…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 63 cited

Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetism of beta-Fe1.00(2)Se1.00(3) single crystals

Rongwei Hu, Hechang Lei, Milinda Abeykoon +5

Understanding iron based superconductors requires high quality impurity free single crystals. So far they have been elusive for beta-FeSe and extraction of intrinsic materials prop…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 7 cited

Multi-band superconductivity in LaFeAsO_{0.9}F_{0.1} single crystals probed by high-field vortex torque magnetometry

G. Li, G. Grissonanche, A. Gurevich +5

To probe manifestations of multiband superconductivity in oxypnictides, we measured the angular dependence of the magnetic torque in the mixed state of LaOFF…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 99 cited

Iron-chalcogenide FeSeTe coated superconducting tapes for high field applications

Weidong Si, Juan Zhou, Qing Jie +7

The high upper critical field characteristic of the recently discovered iron-based superconducting chalcogenides opens the possibility of developing a new type of non-oxide high-fi…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 16 cited

Disorder-dependent superconducting phase-diagram at high magnetic fields in FeSeTe ()

T. Gebre, G. Li, J. B. Whalen +7

We compare the superconducting phase-diagram under high magnetic fields (up to T) of FeSeTe single crystals originally grown by the Bridgman-Stockb…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 17 cited

Spin-orbit coupling induced enhancement of superconductivity in a two-dimensional repulsive gas of fermions

Oskar Vafek, Luyang Wang

We study a model of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling , and investigate the superconducting instability using renormalization group approac…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 113 cited

Pauli-limiting effects in the upper critical fields of a clean LiFeAs single crystal

Seunghyun Khim, Bumsung Lee, Jae Wook Kim +3

We have investigated the temperature-dependence of the upper critical field Hc2(T) in a LiFeAs single crystal by direct measurements of resistivity under static magnetic fields up…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 51 cited

Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy

Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si +2

The superconducting state of iron pnictides and chalcogenides exists at the border of antiferromagnetic order. Consequently, these materials could provide clues about the relations…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 23 cited

Evidence that the upper critical field of Nb3Sn is independent of whether it is cubic or tetragonal

Jian Zhou, Younjung Jo, Zu Hawn Sung +3

Although 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Nb3Sn as the first high field superconductor, real understanding of its upper critical field behavior μ0Hc2 is incomplete. Here we show…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 18 cited

{Rearrangement of the antiferromagnetic ordering at high magnetic fields in SmFeAsO and SmFeAsOF single crystals

S. Weyeneth, P. J. W. Moll, R. Puzniak +11

The low-temperature antiferromagnetic state of the Sm-ions in both nonsuperconducting SmFeAsO and superconducting SmFeAsOF single crystals was studied by magnetic t…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 1 cited

3D Non-Abelian Anyons: Degeneracy Splitting and Detection by Adiabatic Cooling

Seiji J. Yamamoto, Michael Freedman, Kun Yang

3D non-abelian anyons have been theoretically proposed to exist in heterostructures composed of type II superconductors and topological insulators. We use realistic material parame…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 31 cited

Superfluid density measurements of Ba(CoxFe1-x)2As2 films near optimal doping

Jie Yong, S. Lee, J. Jiang +6

We report the first direct measurements of superfluid density, ns(T) \propto λ-2(T), in films of Fe-pnictide superconductors. The magnetic penetration depth, λ(0), in our epitaxial…