1. Weakly Coupled Type-II Superconductivity in a Laves compound ZrRe2
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Yu, Yingpeng, Liu, Zhaolong, Li, Qi, Chen, Zhaoxu, Wang, Yulong, Hao, Munan, Yang, Yaling, Gong, Chunsheng, Chen, Long, Xie, Zhenkai, Zhou, Kaiyao, Ren, Huifen, Chen, Xu, and Jin, Shifeng
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Condensed Matter - Superconductivity - Abstract
We present a comprehensive investigation of the superconducting properties of ZrRe2, a Re-based hexagonal Laves compounds. ZrRe2 crystallizes in a C14-type structure (space group P63/mmc), with cell parameters a=b=5.2682(5) and c=8.63045 . Resistivity and magnetic susceptibility data both suggest that ZrRe2 exhibits a sharp superconducting transition above 6.1 K. The measured lower and upper critical fields are 6.27 mT and 12.77 T, respectively, with a large upper critical field that approached the Pauli limit.Measurements of the heat capacity confirm the presence of bulk superconductivity, with a normalized specific heat change of 1.24 and an electron-phonon strength of 0.69 . DFT calculations revealed that the band structure of ZrRe2 is intricate and without van-Hove singularity. The observed large specific heat jump, combined with the electron-phonon strength , suggests that ZrRe2 is a weakly coupled type II superconductor., Comment: 14 pages,7 figures, 2 tables
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- 2024