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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 21: Superconductivity: Poster Session
TT 21.16: Poster
Monday, March 16, 2015, 15:00–18:00, Poster B
Phase diagram of Fe-substituted BaNi2As2 — •Liran Wang1, Anna Böhmer1,2, Frédéric Hardy1, Peter Schweiss1, Thomas Wolf1, and Christoph Meingast1 — 1Institute für Festkörperphysik,Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 76344 Karlsruhe, Germany — 2Department of Physics and Astronomy and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
Recently, the phosphorus doped BaNi2As2[1] system was found to exhibit a large increase of Tc upon suppression of the structural transition, which was attributed to a large phonon softening at the critical concentration[2]. Here, we investigate the closely related Ba(Ni1−2Fex)2As2 system, mostly on the iron-rich side, using high-resolution thermal expansion, specific heat, magnetization and resistivity measurements. We find a very similar suppression of the structural transition with Fe- as with P-doping, but do not find an enhanced superconducting transition. However, both the thermal expansion and resistivity exhibit anomalously large anomalies around the critical doping region, which are shown to be of non phononic origin. We discuss similarities and differences between both Fe- and P-substituted systems.
[1] N. Kurita et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147004 (2009).
[2] K. Kudo et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 097002 (2012).