Transport and microwave study of superconducting and magnetic RuSr2EuCu2O8

M. Požek, A. Dulčić, D. Paar, G. V. M. Williams, and S. Krämer
Phys. Rev. B 64, 064508 – Published 19 July 2001
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Abstract

We have performed susceptibility, thermopower, dc resistance, and microwave measurements on RuSr2EuCu2O8. This compound has recently been shown to display the coexistence of both superconducting and magnetic order. We find clear evidence of changes in the dc and microwave resistance near the magnetic ordering temperature (132 K). The intergranular effects were separated from the intragranular effects by performing microwave measurements on a sintered ceramic sample as well as on a powder sample dispersed in an epoxy resin. We show that the data can be interpreted in terms of the normal-state resistivity being dominated by the CuO2 layers with exchange coupling to the Ru moments in the RuO2 layers. Furthermore, most of the normal-state semiconductorlike upturn in the microwave resistance is found to arise from intergranular transport. The data in the superconducting state can be consistently interpreted in terms of intergranular weak links and an intragranular spontaneous vortex phase due to the ferromagnetic component of the magnetization arising from the RuO2 planes.

  • Received 13 September 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.064508

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. Požek, A. Dulčić, and D. Paar

  • Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, P.O. Box 331, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia

G. V. M. Williams

  • 2. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
  • The New Zealand Institute for Industrial Research, P.O. Box 31310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

S. Krämer

  • 2. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany

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Vol. 64, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2001

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