Transport, thermal, and magnetic properties of RuSr₂(Gd_1.5Ce_0.5)Cu₂O_10-, a magnetic superconductor Academic Article

abstract

• Resistivity, thermoelectric power, heat capacity, and magnetization for samples of RuSr2(Gd1.5Ce0.5)Cu2O10 were investigated in the temperature range 1.8300K with a magnetic field up to 8T. The resistive transitions to the superconducting state are found to be determined by the inhomogeneous (granular) structure, characterized by the intragranular, Tc0, and intergranular, Tcg, transition temperatures. Heat capacity, C(T), shows a jump at the superconducting transition temperature Tc037.5K. A Schottky-type anomaly is found in C(T) below 20K. This low-temperature anomaly can be attributed to splitting of the ground term S728 of paramagnetic Gd3+ ions by internal and external magnetic fields.

authors

• Agnolet, Glenn
• Naugle, Donald

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

• Naugle, D. G., Rathnayaka, K., Krasovitsky, V. B., Belevtsev, B. I., Anatska, M. P., Agnolet, G., & Felner, I.

citation count

• 12

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5103 Classical Physics
• 5104 Condensed Matter Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.2163276

start page

• 08m501

end page

• 08M501

volume

• 99

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2163276