Effects of particle irradiations on vortex states in iron-based superconductors

鉄系超伝導体の磁束量子状態への粒子線照射効果

為ヶ井 強*; 田縁 俊光*; 柳生田 英徳*; 土屋 雄司*; Mohan, S.*; 谷口 智隆*; 仲島 康行*; 岡安 悟  ; 笹瀬 雅人*; 北村 尚*; 村上 健*; 神原 正*; 金井 保之*

Tamegai, Tsuyoshi*; Taen, Toshihiro*; Yagyuda, Hidenori*; Tsuchiya, Yuji*; Mohan, S.*; Taniguchi, Tomotaka*; Nakajima, Yasuyuki*; Okayasu, Satoru; Sasase, Masato*; Kitamura, Hisashi*; Murakami, Takeshi*; Kambara, Tadashi*; Kanai, Yasuyuki*

様々な高エネルギー粒子を鉄系超伝導体に照射し、臨界電流密度と磁束ダイナミクスへの影響を系統的に調べた。十分なエネルギー付与のできる粒子線照射ならば、銅酸化物高温超伝導体の場合と同様に、の増加や磁束ダイナミクスの抑制に効果があることがわかった。一般に、の増大は銅酸化物に比べて遙かに高い照射量まで持続する。照射効果の詳細はイオン種やエネルギーに依存するが、同種のイオンやエネルギーでもその効果は対象となる鉄系超伝導体ごとに異なる。重イオン照射によって作られる欠陥の相関性は不可逆磁化の角度依存性によって確かめられた。

Various kinds of energetic particles are irradiated into iron-based superconductors, and their effects on the critical current density and vortex dynamics have been systematically studied. It is found that is enhanced and vortex dynamics is strongly suppressed by energetic particles having a sufficient energy deposition rate, similar to the case of high temperature cuprate superconductors. The enhancement of , in general, persists up to much higher irradiation doses than in cuprates. However, details of the effect of irradiation depend on the kind of ion species and their energies. Even with the same ions and energies, the effect is not universal for different kinds of iron-based superconductors. The correlated nature of defects created by heavy-ion irradiation is confirmed by the angular dependence of irreversible magnetization.