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arxiv: 0907.0411 · v1 · pith:YJXB44AYnew · submitted 2009-07-02 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con

Specific heat studies of pure Nb3Sn single crystals at low temperature

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Specific heat measurements performed on high purity vapor-grown Nb$_3$Sn crystals show clear features related to both the martensitic and superconducting transitions. Our measurements indicate that the martensitic anomaly does not display hysteresis, meaning that the martensitic transition could be a weak first or a second order thermodynamic transition. Careful measurements of the two transition temperatures display an inverse correlation between both temperatures. At low temperature specific heat measurements show the existence of a single superconducting energy gap feature.

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