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arxiv: 0908.0033 · v1 · pith:75NX6ZOKnew · submitted 2009-08-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

The specific heat jump at the superconducting transition and the quantum critical nature of the normal state of Pnictide superconductors

classification ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
keywords superconductingtransitioncriticalquantumheatjumpnormalpnictide
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Recently it was discovered that the jump in the specific heat at the superconducting transition in pnictide superconductors is proportional to the superconducting transition temperature to the third power, with the superconducting transition temperature varying from 2 to 25 Kelvin including underdoped and overdoped cases. Relying on standard scaling notions for the thermodynamics of strongly interacting quantum critical states, it is pointed out that this behavior is consistent with a normal state that is a quantum critical metal undergoing a pairing instability.

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