Superconductivity in Transition Metal Substituted Iron-Based Superconductors

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dc.contributor.advisorPaglione, Johnpierreen_US
dc.contributor.authorKirshenbaum, Kevin Charlesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhysicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T06:05:16Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T06:05:16Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractI report on superconductivity in undoped SrFe<sub>2</sub>As<sub>2</sub> and find that it is caused by lattice strain in the as-grown crystals that can be removed or returned with annealing or pressure, respectively. To study the magnetic/structural transition I measure the evolution of these transitions in solid solutions of the [Ca, Sr, Ba]Fe<sub>2</sub>As<sub>2</sub> series and determine that the Neel temperature is independent of the size of the antiferromagnetically ordered moment. I present the first reported phase diagrams for Ni- and Pt-substitution in SrFe<sub>2</sub>As<sub>2</sub>, showing that the simple charge-counting picture of chemical substitution cannot completely describe the onset and offset of the superconducting phase. Finally, I use the transport scattering rate to explain the variation in T<sub>c</sub> seen in transition metal substituted 122s. I will show that pair breaking can explain the variation in the optimum transition temperature, and that the rate of suppression of T<sub>c</sub> with scattering will show that the pairing symmetry of the iron-based superconductors is a sign-changing, multiband s-wave order parameter that must include both inter- and intraband scattering.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14032
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCondensed matter physicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcondensed matter physicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIron-based superconductorsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlow temperatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmaterial synthesisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSuperconductivityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransport measurementsen_US
dc.titleSuperconductivity in Transition Metal Substituted Iron-Based Superconductorsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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