Doping dependence of the specific heat of single crystal BaFe$_{2}$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x})_{2}$
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Abstract
We present a systematic study of the specific heat transitions on a series of BaFe$_{2}$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x})_{2}$ single crystals with phosphorous doping ranging from near optimum doped x = 0.3 to strongly over doped x = 0.55. Our results reveal that BaFe$_{2}$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x})_{2}$ follows the scaling \textit{$\Delta $C/T}$_{c }\sim \quad T_{c}^{2}$ remarkably well.\footnote{S. L. Bud'ko, N. Ni, P. C. Canfield, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{79}, 220516 (2009).} The clean-limit nature of this material imposes new restraints on theories aimed at explaining the scaling. We find that the Ginzburg-Landau parameter decreases significantly with doping whereas the superconducting anisotropy is $\Gamma \sim $2.6, independent of doping.
*Crystal synthesis was supported by the CES, an EFRC funded by US DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (CC,LF,WKK); materials characterization by DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, (UW,HC, GWC), under contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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