Published February 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Calorimetric evidence for nodes in the overdoped Ba(Fe0.9Co0.1)2As2

  • 1. Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001 (United States)
  • 4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)

Description

We present low-temperature specific heat of the electron-doped Ba(Fe0.9Co0.1)2As2, which does not show any indication of an upturn down to 400 mK, the lowest measuring temperature. The lack of a Schottky-like feature at low temperatures or in magnetic fields up to 9 T enables us to identify enhanced low-temperature quasiparticle excitations and to study anisotropy in the linear term of the specific heat. Our results cannot be explained by a single or multiple isotropic superconducting gap, but are consistent with multi-gap superconductivity with nodes on at least one Fermi surface sheet.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023036

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
New Journal of Physics
Journal Volume
13
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
[9 p.]
ISSN
1367-2630