Huge magnetostriction in superconducting single-crystalline BaFeNiAs
arXiv:2308.10492 · doi:10.1063/5.0166209
Abstract
The performance of iron-based superconductors in high magnetic fields plays an important role for their practical application. In this work, we measured the magnetostriction and magnetization of BaFeNiAs single crystals using pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T and static magnetic fields up to 33 T, respectively. A huge longitudinal magnetostriction (of the order of 10) was observed in the direction of the twin boundaries. The magnetization measurements evidence a high critical-current density due to strong bulk pinning. By using magnetization data with an exponential flux-pinning model, we can reproduce the magnetostriction curves qualitatively. This result shows that the magnetostriction of BaFeNiAs can be well explained by a flux-pinning-induced mechanism.
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