Field-temperature scaling in unconventional superconductors

James Analytis (University of California, Berkeley)

Many exotic metallic systems have a resistivity that varies linearly with temperature, and the physics behind this is thought to be connected to high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates and iron-pnictides. Although this phenomenon has attracted considerable attention, it is unclear how the relevant physics manifests in other transport properties, for example their response to an applied magnetic field. We report measurements of the high- field magneto-resistance of the iron-pnictide superconductor BaFe₂(As_1-xP_x)₂ and find that it obeys an unusual scaling relationship between applied magnetic field and temperature, with a conversion factor given simply by the ratio of the Bohr magneton and the Boltzmann constant. This suggests that magnetic fields probe the same physics that gives rise to the T -linear resistivity, providing a new experimental clue to this long-standing puzzle.

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