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Boron Isotope Effect in Superconducting MgB2

S. L. Bud'ko, G. Lapertot, C. Petrovic, C. E. Cunningham, N. Anderson, P. C. Canfield

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0101463

Abstract

We report the preparation method of, and boron isotope effect for MgB2, a new binary intermetallic superconductor with a remarkably high superconducting transition temperature Tc(10B) = 40.2 K. Measurements of both temperature dependent magnetization and specific heat reveal a 1.0 K shift in Tc between Mg11B2 and Mg10B2. Whereas such a high transition temperature might imply exotic coupling mechanisms, the boron isotope effect in MgB2 is consistent with the material being a phonon-mediated BCS superconductor.

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