FAST TRACK COMMUNICATION
FAST TRACK COMMUNICATION
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2008
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T. Park;E. Park;Hanoh Lee;Tomasz Klimczuk;F. Ronning;J. D. Thompson
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T. Park;E. Park;Hanoh Lee;Tomasz Klimczuk;F. Ronning;J. D. Thompson
We report pressure-induced superconductivity in a single crystal of CaFe2As2. At atmospheric pressure, this material is antiferromagnetic below 170 K but under an applied pressure of 0.69 GPa becomes superconducting, with a transition temperature Tc exceeding 10 K. The rate of Tc suppression with applied magnetic field is −0. 7KT −1 , giving an extrapolated zero-temperature upper critical field of 10‐14 T. (Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version) The tetragonal ThCr2Si2 crystal structure supports a wide range of elemental combinations, with the Th site alone being occupied by all the rare earths, the light actinides, divalent alkaline earths Ca, Sr and Ba and others. Recently, the AFe2As2 (A = Ca, Sr and Ba) materials that form in this structure [1] have received renewed attention [2‐8] due to their similarity to another family of compounds ROFeAs (where R is a rare earth) that crystallizes in the tetragonal ZrCuSiAs structure type [9‐14]. Both systems contain structural layers of FeAs, undergo a tetragonal to orthorhombic transition below room temperature and support antiferromagnetism in the orthorhombic structure. Non-isoelectronic chemical substitution in the out-of-plane layer, for example, substituting K for Ba in BaFe2As2 [7 ]o r Ff or Oi n LaOFeAs [8], introduces additional charge carriers, suppresses the structural and magnetic transitions, and induces superconductivity at temperatures in the tens of Kelvins. Of these various materials, none with FeAs layers is superconducting without electronic doping, though the nominally isoelectronic nickel phosphides, BaNi2P2 [15] and LaONiP [16], with NiP layers do superconduct at relatively low (5 K) temperatures. The unit cell volumes of the P-containing compounds are smaller than their As counterparts, and this suggests that an effective chemical pressure produced by replacing As with the smaller P atom may play a significant role. Thus far, no undoped, non-superconducting member of these families has