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Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity in EuSr2Ru1-xNbxCu2O8 |
| FANG Ming-Bao1;FANG Ming-Hu2;XU Zheng1;JIAO Zheng-Kuan2 |
| 1Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092
2Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027
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FANG Ming-Bao, FANG Ming-Hu, XU Zheng et al 2001 Chin. Phys. Lett. 18 963-966 |
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Abstract The structural, magnetic and transport properties of
EuSr2Ru1-xNbxCu2O8 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.5) samples have been investigated by means of x-ray diffraction, magnetization and resistance measurements. It is found that the EuSr2Ru1-xNbxCu2O8 compound exhibits a ferromagnetic order of the Ru moments below the Curie temperature 130.19 K, and becomes superconducting at a much lower critical temperature of 10 K. The experimental observation that partial substitution of Nb for Ru in this system results in the decrease of the Curie temperature further supports the idea that the ferromagnetic order involves only Ru moments in this compound. We suggest that the decrease of the superconducting critical temperature Tc due to the partial substitution of Nb for Ru originates from the decrease of the carrier concentration in the CuO2 plane because of Nb existing always in the Nb5+ valance state while Ru is in a mixted valance state between Ru4+ and Ru5+. The coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity is also discussed.
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| Keywords:
74.70.-b
74.72.-h
75.60.-d
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Published: 01 July 2001
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74.70.-b
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(Superconducting materials other than cuprates)
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74.72.-h
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(Cuprate superconductors)
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75.60.-d
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(Domain effects, magnetization curves, and hysteresis)
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