Strongly fluctuating moments in the high-temperature magnetic superconductor RbEuFe${}_4$As${}_4$

Abstract

We report detailed specific heat measurements on the recently discovered magnetic superconductor RbEuFe${}_4$As${}_4$. We investigated the superconducting transition at 37K and extract the phase boundary for in and out-of plane fields resulting in an anisotropy ratio of 1.8. An unusual cusp-like feature in the calorimetric data near 14.9K marks the onset of a magnetic phase. Studying the effect of small fields along the crystallographic $c$ axis, we resolve a shift in the cusp position moving to lower temperatures. For in-plane fields the cusp rapidly disappears and a broad shoulder that shifts to higher temperatures. We are able to reproduce our measured calorimetry data quantitatively by Monte-Carlo simulations of an anisotropic easy-plane 2D Heisenberg model. We can thus show that (i) the spins are preferably in plane, (ii) the cusp in specific heat is due to a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, and (iii) the high-temperature hump in higher fields marks a crossover from a paramagnetically disordered to an ordered state. The extracted phase and crossover boundaries from experiment and simulations agree very well.

arXiv comment5 pages, 4figures, 7 pages supplementary material

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