Effects of pressure and magnetic field on the re-entrant superconductor Eu(FeRh)As
arXiv:1703.07740 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.195146
Abstract
Electron-doped Eu(FeRh)As has been systematically studied by high pressure investigations of the magnetic and electrical transport properties, in order to unravel the complex interplay of superconductivity and magnetism. The compound reveals an exceedingly broad re-entrant transition to the superconducting state between K and K due to a canted A-type antiferromagnetic ordering of the Eu moments at K and a re-entrant spin glass transition at K. At ambient pressure evidences for the coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism could be observed, as well as a magnetic-field-induced enhancement of the zero-resistance temperature up to K with small magnetic fields applied parallel to the \textit{ab}-plane of the crystal. We attribute the field-induced-enhancement of superconductivity to the suppression of the ferromagnetic component of the Eu moments along the \textit{c}-axis, which leads to a reduction of the orbital pair breaking effect. Application of hydrostatic pressure suppresses the superconducting state around kbar along with a linear temperature dependence of the resistivity, implying that a non-Fermi liquid region is located at the boundary of the superconducting phase. At intermediate pressure, an additional feature in the resistivity curves is identified, which can be suppressed by external magnetic fields and competes with the superconducting phase. We suggest that the effect of negative pressure by the chemical Rh substitution in Eu(FeRh)As is partially reversed, leading to a re-activation of the spin density wave.
11 pages, 13 figures
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