Superconducting-Normal Phase Transition in (Ba1xKx)BiO3, x=0.40, 0.47

B. F. Woodfield, D. A. Wright, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, and H. Y. Tang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4622 – Published 29 November 1999
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Abstract

Specific-heat measurements on (Ba1xKx)BiO3, x=0.40 and 0.47, 0.7T35K, 0H9T, have determined the coefficient (γ) of the normal-state conduction electron specific heat, and shown well-defined specific-heat anomalies at Tc that are consistent with the value of γ and BCS expressions. These results contradict the suggestion in a recent Letter that γ is several orders of magnitude greater than these experimental values and that the absence of a correspondingly large specific-heat anomaly constitutes evidence that the transition is an Ehrenfest fourth-order transition.

  • Received 26 July 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4622

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

B. F. Woodfield*, D. A. Wright, R. A. Fisher, and N. E. Phillips

  • Department of Chemistry, University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

H. Y. Tang

  • Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Nantou 545, Taiwan

  • *Present address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602.

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Vol. 83, Iss. 22 — 29 November 1999

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