The pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature of LaT4P12(T = Fe,Ru, Os) |
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| Authors: | LE DeLong GP Meisner |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40502, USA;Materials Science and Technology Division Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA |
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| Abstract: | The superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of the LaT4P12 compounds with T = Fe, Ru, or Os has been measured under hydrostatic pressure P up to 1.8 GPa. The T = Fe compound exhibits a substantial increase of Tc from Tc (P = 0) = 4.1 K at a rate (dTc/dP)P=0= +7.2 x 10-1 K/GPa. In contrast, the Ru and Os compounds exhibit only weak decreases of Tc from Tc (P = 0) = 7.2 K and 1.8 K with (dTc/dP)P=0= -1.6 x 10-1 K/GPa and -9.5 x 10-2 K/GPa, respectively. An analysis of this strikingly divergent behavior of Tc(P) in terms of the structural characteristics of the RT4X12 class of compounds where R = rare earth element, T = Fe, Ru, or Os, and X = P, As, or Sb suggests that Tc(P) for these materials consists of two competing contributions: a depression of Tc due to the compression of the lattice (i.e., decrease in volume), and an enhancement of Tc due to the effect of pressure on La itself. |
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