Considerable increase in the thermomagnetic stability of multifilament superconductors internally doped by large-heat-capacity substances

It is demonstrated that the thermomagnetic stability of composite superconductors can be considerably increased by introducing into them a small quantity of a material with an extremely high specific heat at low temperatures. Measurements show that the criterion of “adiabatic” stability for a (Nb₃Sn + 7 vol. % PrB₆) wire is 70% higher than for a reference Nb₃Sn wire (at 4.2 K, the specific heat of the doped sample is seven times higher than that of the reference sample). For a (NbTi + 5vol. % Gd₂O₂S) sample, the specific heat of which at 4.2 K is nine times higher than that of a reference NbTi wire, this increase in stability is as small as 10% (because the characteristic thermal time in the transverse direction is much longer than the time of the magnetic flux jump development).     

Structural relaxation,crystallization and improvement of magnetic properties in FeXSiB (X=Cr,Nb)-type amorphous alloys

In the present paper, the influence of Nb and Cr on intensity of structural relaxation, crystallization processes, electric and magnetic properties in the Fe₇₆Nb₂Si₁₃B₉, Fe₇₆Cr₂Si₁₃B₉ and Fe₇₆Nb₁Cr₁Si₁₃B₉ alloys were investigated. It was shown that the improvement of magnetic permeability caused by a suitable annealing is a thermally activated process. Activation energy of this process is found to be of the order of 1 eV. Cr as an alloying addition to the Fe–Si–B alloy does not change the 1 h optimization annealing temperature and causes an increase of its efficiency. Nb as an alloying addition causes an increase of the 1 h optimization annealing temperature, and also the temperature of the first step of crystallization.     

用两带Ginzburg-Landau理论分析两带超导体Lu2Fe3Si5的表面临界磁场

用两带Ginzburg-Landau(GL)理论分析了Lu₂Fe₃Si₅的表面临界磁场,当超导体的表面与任一主晶面重合,且外磁场平行于超导体的表面时,比值H_c3/H_c2(H_C2是Lu₂Fe₃Si₅的上临界磁场)强烈依赖于温度. 当超导体的表面是bc平面,且 关键词： 两带超导体 GL理论 2Fe₃Si₅')" href="#">Lu₂Fe₃Si₅ 表面临界磁场     

Mean-field calculations on the magnetic properties of the two-gap superconductor Lu2Fe3Si5

Based on Ginzburg-Landau theory, we study the temperature dependence of upper critical field and London penetration depth for the superconducting crystal Lu₂Fe₃Si₅. All the results fit the experimental data well. We also indicate that the larger gap opens in the quasi-one-dimensional part of Fermi surfaces.     

Phonon line width in superconductors

It is shown that a measurement of the phonon line width of strong coupling superconductors by inelastic neutron scattering can be used to detect parallel parts in the Fermi surface of the metal. Recent measurements for Nb₃Sn are analyzed.     

57Fe Mössbauer study of Lu2Fe3Si5 iron silicide superconductor

With the advent of Fe–As based superconductivity it has become important to study how superconductivity manifests itself in details of ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy of conventional, Fe-bearing superconductors. To this end, the iron-based superconductor Lu₂Fe₃Si₅ has been studied by ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy over the temperature range from 4.4 K to room temperature with particular attention to the region close to the superconducting transition temperature (T_c=6.1 K). Consistent with the two crystallographic sites for Fe in this structure, the observed spectra appear to have a pattern consisting of two doublets over the whole temperature range. The value of Debye temperature was estimated from temperature dependence of the isomer shift and the total spectral area and compared with the specific heat capacity data. Neither abnormal behavior of the hyperfine parameters at or near T_c, nor phonon softening were observed.     

Anomalous upper critical field in ternary iron-silicide superconductor Lu2Fe3Si5

We report the upper critical field H_c2 in a ternary iron-silicide superconductor Lu₂Fe₃Si₅ with T_c  6 K obtained by the resistivity measurements. We find that H_c2 increases linearly with decreasing temperature down to T_c/3, and H_c2(T = 0) exceeds the orbital depairing field described by the Werthamer–Helfand–Hohenberg theory. We also find that the anisotropy of H_c2 is nearly independent of temperature and the angular dependence of H_c2 is well-described by the anisotropic Ginzburg–Landau model. These results strongly indicate the presence of two distinct superconducting gaps in Lu₂Fe₃Si₅ although the behavior is slightly different from that of the typical two-gap superconductor MgB₂.     

Pressure induced anisotropic magnetovolume phenomena in Lu2Fe17 Intermetallics

Magnetisation and magnetic susceptibility of a Lu₂Fe₁₇ single crystal have been studied under hydrostatic pressure up to 1.2 GPa at temperatures down to 5 K using a SQUID magnetometer. The ferromagnetic phase of Lu₂Fe₁₇ is suppressed rapidly above a critical pressure P _C = 0.4 GPa in the whole temperature range below the critical temperature T _C . A magnetic phase diagram of Lu₂Fe₁₇ has been constructed using results of the magnetic susceptibility measurements under pressure. A pressure induced incommensurate antiferromagnetic phase exhibits metamagnetic transitions with the increasing critical magnetic field H _C under pressure. Taking into account recent neutron diffraction data, the pressure induced anisotropic changes of the lattice parameters of the Lu₂Fe₁₇ are discussed.     

Critical field and specific heat of the anisotropic superconductor Nb3S4

We report on the first measurements of the critical field B_c2 and the specific heat of Nb₃S₄, which is a linear structured compound with a superconducting transition temperature of 3.65 K. The angular dependence of B_c2 is well described by the effective-mass model. The ratio of the critical fields parallel and perpendicular to the c-axis gives a value of 4.6. The small value of the specific heat jump at $\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{c}}\text{(}\text{Δc}\text{γT}{}_{\mathrm{c}}\text{= 0.95)}$ can be explained with an anisotropic gap function.     

Focussing and defocussing of ballistic phonons in diamond and Nb3Sn

The ballistic propagation of phonons in diamond and Nb₃Sn at 40 and at 4.2 K is examined. The nature of variation of the phonon magnification factor has been analysed both in the wave vector as well as group velocity spaces. Using the Polar Schmidt-net with Pole at (π/2,π/2), the mappings of phonon focussing and defocussing are made. It is shown that the mapping for theFTA mode for Nb₃Sn exhibits islands acting as impenetrable barriers for phonon propagation.     

Order parameter anisotropy of MgB2 using specific heat jump of layered superconductors

The recently obtained analytical result [1] for renormalization of the jump of the heat capacity (C _S–C _N)/C_N by anisotropy of the order parameter is applied to the layered superconductors. The graph of (C _S–C _N)/C _N vs. the anisotropy of the order parameter allows a direct determination of the gap anisotropy in MgB₂ using available experimental data     

X-ray diffraction studies of the structure of nanocrystals in Fe<Subscript>73.5</Subscript>Si<Subscript>13.5</Subscript>B<Subscript>9</Subscript>Nb<Subscript>3</Subscript>Cu<Subscript>1</Subscript> soft magnetic alloys before and after thermomechanical treatment

The structure of the Fe_73.5Si_13.5B₉Nb₃Cu₁ soft magnetic alloy has been investigated using X-ray diffraction in transmission geometry. The initial alloy prepared by rapid quenching from the melt has a short-range order (∼2 nm) in the atomic arrangement, which is characteristic of the Fe-Si structure with a body-centered cubic lattice. The alloy subjected to annealing contains Fe-Si nanocrystals with sizes as large as 10–12 nm. The annealing under a tensile load leads to an extension of the nanocrystal lattice so that, after cooling, a significant residual deformation is retained. This can be judged from the relative shifts of the (hkl) peaks in the X-ray diffraction patterns measured for two orientations of the scattering vector, namely, parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the load applied. The deformation is anisotropic: within the accuracy of the experiment, no distortions in the [111] direction are observed and the distortions in the [100] direction are maximum. It is known that crystals with a composition close to Fe₃Si exhibit a negative magnetostriction; i.e., their magnetization induced under a load (Villari effect) applied along the [100] direction is perpendicular to this direction along one of the easy magnetization ([010] or [001]) axes. In the alloy, the orientation of the nanocrystal axes is isotropic and the majority of the nanocrystals have a composition close to Fe₃Si. The direction of magnetization of these nanocrystals is determined by the residual deformation of their lattice and lies near the plane perpendicular to the direction of the tensile load applied during heat treatment. This is responsible for the appearance of transverse magnetic anisotropy of the easy-plane type in the Fe_73.5Si_13.5B9Nb₃Cu₁ alloy.     

Coexistence model of anisotropic electron hole pairing and unconventional superconductivity in Heavy Fermion compounds

Various Heavy Fermion compounds exhibit unconventional superconductivity together with another electronic instability like a spin density wave or possibly a more general type of anisotropic electron-hole pairing, e.g. a spin nematic state. The coexistence behaviour of these order parameters is studied within a simple weak coupling model. It is found that depeding on the symmetry of the order parameters coexistence or phase expulsion may occur. Whereas the former case is possibly realized for theU-based superconductors, CeCu₂Si₂ may be an example of the second case as observed and discussed in the context of elastic constant anomalies.     

Photoemission results of intermetallic superconductors: Nb3Al and MgB2

We study the superconducting electronic structures of Nb₃Al and MgB₂ using high-resolution spectroscopy. The obtained spectrum of Nb₃Al measured below T_c shows clear opening of the superconducting gap with a sharp pile up in the density of states and a shift of the leading edge. In addition, the spectrum shows a peak-dip-hump line shape expected from the strong-coupling theory. On the other hand, for MgB₂, the superconducting-state spectrum measured at 5.4 K shows a coherent peak with a shoulder structure, in sharp contrast to that expected from a single isotropic gap. The superconducting spectral shape of MgB₂ can be explained in terms of a multicomponent gap.     

Phonon density-of-states in the new superconductor MgB 2

We provide here experimental data on the phonon density-of-states of MgB₂ obtained by the inelastic neutron scattering technique. The measurements were performed for the natural boron-based magnesium diboride with use of a time-of-flight neutron spectrometer. Several phonon bands were observed in the phonon spectrum at energies of about 33, 55, 82 and 99 meV. We show that the cut-off energy of the density-of-states occurs at around 105 meV which is much higher than expected so far from heat-capacity data and partially explains the high T _c value observed for MgB₂. The characteristic phonon energies are indicative of an intermediate coupling regime in this compound. We conclude that a much needed neutron experiment aimed at the study of the isotopic effect in the phonon density-of-states of MgB₂ is conceivable. Received 19 March 2001     

Die-upset Nd11.5Fe72.4Co9Nb1B6.1 magnets with additions of Zn, Al and Sn

The magnetic properties and microstructure were studied for bulk Nd_11.5Fe_72.4Co₉Nb₁B_6.1 magnets synthesized by hot-pressing and subsequent die-upsetting the melt-spun ribbons with additions of three kinds of low-melting-point metal (Zn, Al and Sn). Die-upset Nd_11.5Fe_72.4Co₉Nb₁B_6.1 magnets have low magnetic properties since they have an inhomogeneous microstructure with many coarse grains. The microstructure of die-upset magnets remains almost unchanged with Al and Sn additions, which only have negative effects on the magnetic properties. Different from Al and Sn additions, Zn addition changes the phase composition of the starting melt-spun powers due to the reaction of Zn and Nd₂Fe₁₄B during hot-pressing and hot-deforming and enhances the development of the desired [0 0 1] texture and improves the microstructure of die-upset magnets. As a result, an anisotropic magnet with good maximum energy product (221 kJ/m³) and high coercivity (670 kA/m) is obtained by adding 2 wt% Zn to the Nd_11.5Fe_72.4Co₉Nb₁B_6.1 alloy.     

Elastic and vibrational properties of Mg2Si1−xSnx alloy from first principles calculations

The structural, elastic and phonon properties of Mg₂Si_1?xSn_x alloy are investigated by performing density functional theory and density functional perturbation theory calculations. The calculated lattice parameter increases with the increase of Sn content obeying Vegard’s Law that is in good agreement with available experimental data. Shear modulus, Young’s modulus and sound velocities are determined from the obtained elastic constants. Phonon dispersion curves show a pronounced softening with increasing of Sn content. The softening mechanism has been discussed based upon the element mass and bond strength. Besides, phonon contribution to the Helmholtz free energy, the entropy and the constant-volume heat capacity are calculated within the harmonic approximation based on the calculated phonon density of states. Results show Mg₂Si_1?xSn_x is thermodynamically more stable with higher Sn content.     

激光辐照非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B 9微量晶化的穆斯堡尔谱研究

在激光功率为40—160W、扫描速度为10mm/s、激光光斑为20mm照射条件下,用CO ₂激 光辐照非晶Fe_73.5Cu₁Nb₃Si_13.5B_{9< /sub>产生微量晶化.利用透射穆斯堡尔谱 （TMS）技术分析了原始态和晶化后样品的超精细结构.确定了穆斯堡尔谱的基本参数——化 学位移(IS)、四极分裂(QS)、内磁场(Hhf)随激光功率变化的规律.分析表明，CO2关键词： 激光辐照 微量晶化 73.5Cu1Nb3 Si13.5B9')" href="#">非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3 Si13.5B9 穆斯堡尔谱}     

Influence of structurization of amorphous Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 alloy on its spectral properties

The optical properties of Fe_73.5Si_13.5B₉Nb₃Cu₁ ferromagnetic alloy in the amorphous, nanocrystalline, and crystalline states have been investigated by optical ellipsometry in the spectral range of 0.22–18 μm. It is established that the crystallization of alloy during heat treatment leads to a significant change in its optical constants, as well as the frequency dependences of dielectric functions calculated based on these constants. The structural ordering is accompanied by a considerable increase in the intensity of the fundamental absorption band and an occurrence of its blue shift. Some characteristics of conduction electrons are determined, the numerical values of which also depend on the degree of atomic order.     

Properties of anisotropic s-wave superconductivity in MgB2

Earlier this year a new type of high-temperature superconductivity has been reported in MgB₂ with a transition temperature of 39 K. In a recent paper we proposed a simple BCS model with an anisotropic s-wave order parameter which accounts for the available thermodynamic and scanning tunneling microscopy data obtained from polycrystalline palets of MgB₂. In this work, we further investigate the physical consequences of this theory by calculating the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity, the nuclear spin relaxation rate, and the angular dependence of the upper critical field.