The Hysteresis of magnetoresistance in heterocontacts with Fe-based

superconductors
Yu.N. Chiang1, M.O. Dzyuba1 and D.A. Chareev 2
1
ILTPE NASU, Ukraine
2
Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences,
142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
E-mail:dzyuba@ilt.kharkov.ua

The emergence of new iron-based superconductors caused another burst of interest in the problem of compalibility between
superconductivity and magnetism. Experimetal investigations of the conductance of NS heterosystems, with granular LaO(F)FeAs as a
supercoductor, under conditions of Andreev reflection, seem to be an important trend in the study of this problem.

Average behavior of the resistance in a magnetic field,

normalized to the total contact resistance (left axis
Magnetoresistance with hysteresis of the heterojunction
scale) and magnetoresistance normalized to the
resistance of the superconductor normal areas (scale on Cu/LaO(F)FeAs, normalized to the total contact

the right axis), of heterocontact Cu/LaO(F)FeAs. resistance: * represent experiment ((T+eV)~); solid
curve is spin-dependent magnetoresistance in
Studying such systems in small external magnetic accordance with theory(eq. 4).
fields and low temperatures, we observed negative
magnetoresistance (Fig. 1) and positive
magnetoresistance with hysteresis (Fig. 2). The increase
(1)
in conductivity, as well as the hysteresis effect, which
cannot be eliminated even in the mode with the (2)

probability of Andreev reflection at the NS boundary

close to zero, indicate the spin-dependent nature of (3) [1]
transport in the normal ground state of chalcogenides
and arsenide oxypnictides. In particular, positivity and
(4)
even charging (with respect to the magnetic field
direction) of the magnetoresistance in this transport
where, according to the experiment, fev(H) is an
mode indicate the possibility of Stoner ferromagnetic even function of the magnetic field.
instability. At this instability the amplitude of spin
scattering may depend on the number of
ferromagnetically oriented local moments in stripes with [1] JunKondo, Progr.ofTheor.Phys. 32, 37, (1964).
[2] Clarina de la Cruz et.al, Nature 443, 899 (2008)
ferromagnetic interaction of local spins with spins of
itinerant electrons.