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Evidence for Competition between Superconductivity and Kondo Effect in CeFeAsO0.7F0.3 under High Pressure

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(2009)cite arxiv:0907.4212 Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures.

Abstract

We demonstrate experimental evidence for pressure-induced competition between superconducting phase and Kondo screened phase in CeFeAsO0.7F0.3 through measurements of resistance, synchrotron x-ray diffraction, and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in high-pressure diamond anvil cell. With increasing pressure, the superconducting critical temperature initially decreases gradually from ambient pressure until 8.6 GPa where it drops drastically and eventually disappears at ~10 GPa. Our XAS data of Ce-L3 in CeFeAsO0.7F0.3 clearly reveal a spectral weight transfer from the main line to the satellite line upon increasing pressure, a similar behavior to the gamma-alpha phase transition in cerium metal, suggesting pressure-induced enhancement of Kondo screening effect in CeFeAsO1-xFx.

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