Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Abstract:
The magnetic properties of single-crystal Ba0.6K0.4BiO3 were studied. The results show that this isotropic superconductor (cubic structure with Tc ≈ 32 K) exhibits irreversibility and relaxation properties similar to those observed in the layered, high temperature superconductors. For fields above 0.1 T, an irreversibility line Birr = Birr (0) (1 − t)n with n = 3/2 and Birr (0) = 20 T is observed. The comparison among several superconducting systems with different anisotropies suggests that the irreversibility line is unlikely to be the melting line for the YBa2Cu3O7−δ.