Pressure Dependence of Superconducting Transition Temperature on Perovskite-Type Fe-Based Superconductors and NMR Study of Sr2VFeAsO3

TL;DR

This study investigates how pressure affects the superconducting transition temperature in perovskite-type Fe-based superconductors and explores magnetic properties of Sr2VFeAsO3 using NMR, revealing pressure-dependent T_c behavior and magnetic ordering phenomena.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the pressure dependence of T_c in Fe-based superconductors and characterizes magnetic ordering in Sr2VFeAsO3 through NMR analysis.

Findings

T_c remains constant up to ~1 GPa then decreases with pressure.

Longer a-axis length at ambient pressure correlates with increased T_c under pressure.

Magnetic ordering occurs at low temperatures with inhomogeneity in Sr2VFeAsO3.

Abstract

We report the pressure dependences of the superconducting transition temperature (T_c) in several perovskite-type Fe-based superconductors through the resistivity measurements up to ~4 GPa. In Ca_4(Mg,Ti)_3Fe_2As_2O_y with the highest T_c of 47 K in the present study, the T_c keeps almost constant up to ~1 GPa, and starts to decrease above it. From the comparison among several systems, we obtained a tendency that low T_c with the longer a-axis length at ambient pressure increases under pressure, but high T_c with the shorter a-axis length at ambient pressure hardly increases. We also report the ^75As-NMR results on Sr_2VFeAsO_3. NMR spectrum suggests that the magnetic ordering occurs at low temperatures accompanied by some inhomogeneity. In the superconducting state, we confirmed the anomaly by the occurrence of superconductivity in the nuclear spin lattice relaxation rate 1/T_1, but the spin fluctuations unrelated with the superconductivity are dominant. It is conjectured that the localized V-3d moments are magnetically ordered and their electrons do not contribute largely to the Fermi surface and the superconductivity in Sr_2VFeAsO_3.