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We report a high-pressure transport study of the upper-critical field, $B_{c2}(T)$, of the topological superconductor Sr$_{0.15}$Bi$_2$Se$_3$ ($T_c = 3.0$ K). $B_{c2}(T)$ was measured for magnetic fields directed along two orthogonal directions, $a$ and $a^*$, in the trigonal basal plane. While superconductivity is rapidly suppressed at the critical pressure $p_c sim 3.5$ GPa, the pronounced two-fold basal-plane anisotropy $B_{c2}^a/B_{c2}^{a^*} = 3.2$ at $T=0.3$ K, recently reported at ambient pressure (Pan et al., 2016), is reinforced and attains a value of $sim 5$ at the highest pressure (2.2 GPa). The data reveal that the unconventional superconducting state with broken rotational symmetry is robust under pressure.
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We studied the anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field $H_{rm c2}$ in the heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ under hydrostatic pressure by magnetoresistivity measurements. In agreement with previous experiments we confirm that superconductivity disappears near a critical pressure $p_{rm c} approx 1.5$~GPa, and a magnetically ordered state appears. The unusual $H_{rm c2}(T)$ at low temperatures for $H parallel a$ suggests that the multiple superconducting phases which appear under pressure have quite different $H_{rm c2}$. For a field applied along the hard magnetization $b$ axis $H_{rm c2} (0)$ is glued to the metamagnetic transition $H_{rm m}$ which is suppressed near $p_{rm c}$. The suppression of $H_{rm m}$ with pressure follows the decrease of temperature $T_{chi}^{rm max}$, at the maximum in the susceptibility along $b$. The strong reinforcement of $H_{rm c2}$ at ambient pressure for $H parallel b$ above 16~T is rapidly suppressed under pressure due to the increase of $T_{rm sc}$ and the decrease of $H_{rm m}$. The change in the hierarchy of the anisotropy of $H_{rm c2}(0)$ on approaching $p_{rm c}$ points out that the $c$ axis becomes the hard magnetization axis.
We have carried out high-field resistivity measurements up to 27,T in EuFe$_2$As$_2$ at $P$,=,2.5,GPa, a virtually optimal pressure for the $P$-induced superconductivity, where $T_mathrm{c}$,=,30,K. The $B_mathrm{c2}-T_mathrm{c}$ phase diagram has been constructed in a wide temperature range with a minimum temperature of 1.6 K ($approx 0.05 times T_mathrm{c}$), for both $B parallel ab$ ($B_mathrm{c2}^mathrm{ab}$) and $B parallel c$ ($B_mathrm{c2}^mathrm{c}$). The upper critical fields $B_mathrm{c2}^mathrm{ab}$(0) and $B_mathrm{c2}^mathrm{c}$(0), determined by the onset of resistive transitions, are 25 T and 22 T, respectively, which are significantly smaller than those of other Fe-based superconductors with similar values of $T_mathrm{c}$. The small $B_mathrm{c2}(0)$ values and the $B_mathrm{c2}(T)$ curves with positive curvature around 20 K can be explained by a multiple pair-breaking model that includes the exchange field due to the magnetic Eu$^{2+}$ moments. The anisotropy parameter, $Gamma=B_mathrm{c2}^{ab}/B_mathrm{c2}^{c}$, in EuFe$_2$As$_2$ at low temperatures is comparable to that of other 122 Fe-based systems.
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