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One of the goals in understanding any new class of superconductors is to search for commonalities with other known superconductors. The present work investigates the superconducting condensation energy, U, in the iron based superconductors (IBSs), and compares their U with a broad range of other distinct classes of superconductor, including conventional BCS elements and compounds and the unconventional heavy fermion, Sr2RuO4, Li0.1ZrNCl, kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)Cu(NCS)(2), and optimally doped cuprate superconductors. Surprisingly, both the magnitude and T-c dependence (U proportional to T-3.4 +/- 0.2 of U are-contrary to the previously observed behavior of the specific heat discontinuity at T-c, Delta C-quite similar in the IBS and BCS materials for T-c > 1.4 K. In contrast, the heavy fermion superconductors' U vs T-c are strongly (up to a factor of 100) enhanced above the IBS/BCS while the cuprate superconductors' U are strongly (factor of 8) reduced. However, scaling of U with the specific heat gamma(or Delta C) brings all the superconductors investigated onto one universal dependence upon Tc. This apparent universal scaling U/gamma proportional to T-c(2) for all superconductor classes investigated, both weak and strong coupled and both conventional and unconventional, links together extremely disparate behaviors over almost seven orders of magnitude for U and almost three orders of magnitude for T-c. Since U has not yet been explicitly calculated beyond the weak coupling limit, the present results can help direct theoretical efforts into the medium and strong coupling regimes.
- 出版日期2015-12-16
