TITLE:
Study of Upper Critical Magnetic Field of Superconducting HoMo6Se8
AUTHORS:
Tadesse Desta, Pooran Singh, Gebregziabher Kahsay
KEYWORDS:
Ginzburg-Landau Equation, Upper Critical Magnetic Field, HoMo6Se8
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics,
Vol.5 No.3,
July
27,
2015
ABSTRACT: This work focuses on the study of mathematical aspects of upper critical magnetic field of superconducting HoMo6Se8. At zero external magnetic field, HoMo6Se8 was found to undergo a transition from the normal state to the superconducting state at 5.6 K and returned to a normal but magnetically ordered state between the temperature range of 0.3 K and 0.53 K. The main objective of this work is to show the temperature dependence of the upper critical magnetic field of superconducting HoMo6Se8 by using the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) phenomenological Equation. We found the direct relationship between the GL coherence length (ξGL) and penetration depth (λGL) with temperature. From the GL Equations and the results obtained for the GL coherence length, the expression for upper critical magnetic field (Hc2) is obtained for the superconducting HoMo6Se8. The result is plotted as a function of temperature. The graph shows the linear dependence of upper critical magnetic field (Hc2) with temperature (T) and our finding is in agreement with experimental observations.