Published April 30, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

AC susceptibility studies of the superconductivity of PrOs4Sb12

  • 1. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Wolfgang Gaede Str. 1, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 3. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Wolfgang Gaede Str. 1, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany) and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Physics and Institute of Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 (United States)

Description

We report the superconducting phase diagram of PrOs4Sb12 deduced from the real-part χ' and the imaginary part χ'' of the AC susceptibility. The double transition at Tc1=1.85K and Tc2=1.75K seen in the specific heat may be related to features in χ' and χ'', where full diamagnetic shielding is observed below Tc2 only. As function of magnetic field the phase bounded by Tc2 displays features reminiscent of the peak effect

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.01.257;
PII
S0921-4526(05)00283-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
359-361
Journal Page Range
p. 901-903
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES '04
Dates
26-30 Jul 2004
Place
Karlsruhe (Germany)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.