Magnetic and superconducting properties of spin-fluctuation-limited superconducting nanoscale VNx

R. Zeng, J. Liu, G. D. Du, W. X. Li, J. L. Wang, J. Horvat, S. X. Dou

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    Abstract

    VN x nanoparticles and nanowires have been prepared by nitrifying V 2O 5 nanoparticles (NP) and nanowires (NW). The V 2O 5 NP and NW were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method. Magnetic susceptibility (X) and magnetization measurements showed long range superconducting ordering (LRSO) at the temperature of 5.8 K for NW, but there was no observation of LRSO (at least down to 2 K) for the NP sample, which is a much lower temperature than for the corresponding bulk, while both NP and NW showed the absence of long range magnetic ordering, at least down to 2 K. However, X the data showed that both samples possess a high Pauli-like component, X 0, in their susceptibility (X 0 ≈ 2.22 × 10 -4emu/mol for NP and 5 × 10 -4emu/mol for NW). Moreover, for the NW samples, X has a strong magnetic field dependence and presents a non-linear field-polarization feature, suggesting strong spin-orbit coupling.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article numberArt. No.: 07E142
    Number of pages3
    JournalJournal of Applied Physics
    Volume111
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

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