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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 105, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.094504
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- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Core Research Grant [CRG/2019/001028]
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) , Government of India [DST/SJF/PSA-01/2015-16]
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Experimental exploration of the physics of anisotropic superconductors near a critical B point remains an unattained goal, and ZrB12 can be used as a model material system to study such phenomena.
The superconductors with the Ginzburg-Landau (G-L) parameter (kappa) similar to 1/root 2 exist near a critical Bogomolnyi (B) point where they show intertype domains between type-I and type-II superconductivity. While such physics is well understood for isotropic superconductors, the experimental investigation of the physics of anisotropic superconductors near a critical B point remains an unattained goal, mainly due to the unavailability of model material systems. Theoretically, such superconductors are expected to show type-I or type-II behavior for definite directions of an applied magnetic field. Here, from directional point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy and field-angle-dependent ac magnetic susceptibility measurements, we show that ZrB12 is an anisotropic superconductor and it exhibits field-direction-dependent type-I and type-II behavior. These observations match remarkably well with the theoretical expectations for an anisotropic superconductor near a critical B point. Therefore our results project ZrB(12 )as a model material system where the physics of intertype anisotropic superconductivity can be explored experimentally.
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