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Intrinsic Coherence Length Anisotropy in Nickelates, and Some Pnictides and Chalcogenides Superconductors
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: Received: 12 May 2023 / Approved: 12 May 2023 / Online: 12 May 2023 (11:37:48 CEST)
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Talantsev, E.F. Intrinsic Coherence Length Anisotropy in Nickelates and Some Iron-Based Superconductors. Materials 2023, 16, 4367. Talantsev, E.F. Intrinsic Coherence Length Anisotropy in Nickelates and Some Iron-Based Superconductors. Materials 2023, 16, 4367.
Abstract
Nickelate superconductors, R1-xAxNiO2 (where R is a rare earth metal and A = Sr, Ca), experimentally discovered in 2019 exhibit many unexplained mysteries as the existence of a superconducting state with Tc (up to 18 K) in thin films and its absence in bulk materials. Another unexplained mystery of nickelates is their temperature-dependent upper critical field, Bc2T, which can be nicely fitted to two-dimensional (2D) models; however the deduced film thickness, dsc,GL, exceeds the physical film thickness, dsc, by a manifold. To address the latter, it should be noted that 2D models assume that dsc is less than the in-plane and out-of-plane ground state coherence lengths, dsc<ξab0 and dsc<ξc0, respectively, and, in addition, that the inequality ξc0<ξab0 satisfies. Analysis of the reported experimental Bc2T data showed that at least one of these conditions does not satisfy for R1-xAxNiO2 films. This implies that nickelate films are not 2D superconductors, even despite though that the superconducting state is observed only in thin films. Based on this, here we proposed analytical three dimensional (3D) model for global data fit of in-plane and out-of-plane Bc2T in nickelates. The model is based on a heuristic expression for temperature dependent coherence length anisotropy: γξT=γξ01-1a×TTc, where a>1 is a unitless free-fitting parameter. The proposed expression for γξT, perhaps, has a much broader application because it has been successfully applied to bulk pnictide and chalcogenide superconductors.
Keywords
nickelate superconductors; iron-based supercondcutors; superconducting coherence length; anisotropy of characteristic length in supercondcutors
Subject
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics
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