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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 72, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.214523
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/A11717/01, EP/C511778/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We show that the superconductivity observed recently in the weak itinerant ferromagnet ZrZn2 [C. Pfleiderer , Nature (London) 412, 58 (2001)] is due to remnants of a superconducting layer induced by spark erosion. Results of resistivity, susceptibility, specific heat, and surface analysis measurements on high-quality ZrZn2 crystals show that cutting by spark erosion leaves a superconducting surface layer. The resistive superconducting transition is destroyed by chemically etching a layer of 5 mu m from the sample. No signature of superconductivity is observed in rho(T) of etched samples at the lowest current density measured, J=675 A m(-2), and at T >= 45 mK. Energy-dispersive x-ray analysis shows that spark-eroded surfaces are strongly Zn depleted. The simplest explanation of our results is that the superconductivity results from an alloy with higher Zr content than ZrZn2.
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