Abstract
We succeeded in growing single crystals of a superconductor Zr2Co with the tetragonal structure by the Bridgman method and carried out electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, specific heat, and de Haas–van Alphen (dHvA) experiments. Superconductivity is a characteristic revealing that the electronic specific heat at 1.45 K in the form of Ce/T in the superconducting state increases not linearly but as a function of \(\sqrt{H} \) up to a magnetic field close to the upper critical field Hc2 = 11 kOe. The superconducting transition temperature Tsc is found to increase markedly with increasing pressure from Tsc = 5.2 K at ambient pressure to 9.5 K at 8 GPa. From the dHvA experiment, several kinds of dHvA branches are detected, which are well explained by the results of the energy band calculation. The main conduction electrons are Zr-4d and Co-3d electrons.
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