Effect of annealing on the specific heat of optimally doped Ba(FeCo)As
arXiv:1009.0954 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/273/1/012094
Abstract
We report the temperature dependence of the low-temperature specific heat down to 400 mK of the electron-doped Ba(FeCo)As superconductors. We have measured two samples extracted from the same batch: first sample has been measured just after preparation with no additional heat treatment. The sample shows =20 K, residual specific heat =3.6 mJ/mol K and a Schottky-like contribution at low temperatures. A second sample has been annealed at 800 for two weeks and shows = 25 K and =1.4 mJ/mol~K. By subtracting the lattice specific heat, from pure BaFeAs, the temperature dependence of the electronic specific heat has been obtained and studied. For both samples the temperature dependence of clearly indicate the presence of low-energy excitations in the system. Their specific heat data cannot be described by single clean s- or d-wave models and the data requires an anisotropic gap scenario which may or may not have nodes
SCES 2010, 5 pages, 2 figures
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