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We report a combined pressure-doping study in the nearly two-dimensional heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 as its superconducting phase is driven to the normal state by Sn doping and/or applied pressure. Temperature-pressure-dependent electrical resistivity measurements were performed at the vicinity of a superconducting quantum critical point where Tcâ0. A universal plot of the concentration- and pressure-dependent phase diagram suggests that for the concentrations studied a single mechanism is responsible for reducing Tc and bringing the system to the superconducting quantum critical point. A two-band model with hybridization controlled by pressure and doping provides a consistent description of the phase diagram and the suppression of the d-wave superconductivity in this material.
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The influence of external pressure on the electrical transport and magnetic properties of EuCu(2)As(2), crystallizing in a ThCr(2)Si(2)-type structure, is reported. The system is known to be an antiferromagnet below T(N) ≈ 15 K in the absence of external magnetic fields. We find that there is a gradual reduction of T(N) with the application of a magnetic field with an extrapolated value of the critical field of around 18 kOe which can drive T(N) to zero. Electrical resistivity under pressure (<11 GPa) reveals that the magnetic ordering temperature is pushed up dramatically to higher temperatures which is quite interesting if compared with the behavior in isostructural FeAs-based systems containing Eu. Above 7 GPa, the pressure-induced state appears to be ferromagnetic. The results thus reveal interesting changes in the magnetic ordering behavior of this compound with increasing pressure and magnetic fields.
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Arsénico/química , Cobre/química , Europio/química , Campos Magnéticos , Conductividad Eléctrica , Modelos Moleculares , PresiónRESUMEN
The low temperature magnetization, specific heat, electrical resistance and magnetoresistance have been studied for the Ru-doped La(1.32)Sr(1.68)Mn(2 - y)Ru(y)O(7) (y = 0.0, 0.04, 0.08 and 0.15) layered manganite system. The undoped compound (y = 0.0) shows a sharp ferromagnetic transition (T(C)) accompanied by a metal-insulator transition (T(MI)) at 118 K. The Ru substitution decreases the T(C) and T(MI) temperatures significantly. The temperature dependence of specific heat measurement confirms the decrease in T(C) by observing the anomaly corresponding to T(C). The decreased effective moments from 3.48 µ(B) for the undoped compound to 1.82 µ(B) for the highly doped compound at 5 K indicates the Ru substitution weakens the ferromagnetic order in the low temperature regime and reduces the number of Mn pairs in the highly doped sample. The field dependence of magnetization measurements exhibits an enhancement of the coercive field with increased Ru concentration and gives evidence for the mixed magnetic phase for the highly doped compound. For the undoped sample, a large negative magnetoresistance of 300% at T(C) and 128% at 4.2 K in a 5 T field were observed. The magnetoresistance ratio decreases gradually with increasing Ru substitution. We find that the doped Ru in the Mn site drives the layered manganite system towards a magnetically mixed state. The effects of Ru doping in the transport and magnetic properties will be explained by the antiferromagnetically coupled Ru and Mn sublattices.
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Pressure- and temperature-dependent heat capacity and electrical resistivity experiments on Sn- and La-doped CeRhIn5 are reported for two samples with specific concentrations, Ce(0.90)La(0.10)RhIn5 and CeRhIn(4.84)Sn(0.16), which present the same TN=2.8 K. The obtained P-T phase diagrams for doped CeRhIn5 compared to that for the pure compound show that Sn doping shifts the diagram to lower pressures while La doping does exactly the opposite, indicating that the important energy scale to define the pressure range for superconductivity in CeRhIn5 is the strength of the on-site Kondo coupling.