Superconductivity reinforced by magnetic field and the magnetic instability in uranium ferromagnets

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Beitragende

  • Dai Aoki - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Tatsuma D. Matsuda - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Japan Atomic Energy Agency (Autor:in)
  • Frédéric Hardy - , Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Autor:in)
  • Christoph Meingast - , Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Autor:in)
  • Valentin Taufour - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Elena Hassinger - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Ilya Sheikin - , Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (Autor:in)
  • Carley Paulsen - , Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (Autor:in)
  • Georg Knebel - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Hisashi Kotegawa - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Jacques Flouquet - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)

Abstract

We review our recent results on ferromagnetic superconductors, URhGe and UCoGe. High quality single crystals of both compounds were successfully grown. The specific heat shows a clear jump related to the superconducting transition in UCoGe. The finite values of C/T at 0 K are discussed in terms of the selfinduced vortex state and the value of the ordered moment. With increasing fields for H ∥ b-axis in URhGe, the jump of thermal expansion increases and shifts to lower temperature. The re-entrant and S-shaped superconducting phases for URhGe and UCoGe respectively are explained by the unusual field dependence of the effective mass, which is induced by the ferromagnetic instability when the field is applied along the hard magnetization b-axis. The magnetic fluctuations are very sensitive to the field orientation. This is reflected in the Hc2 and the anisotropy of the effective mass.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
AufsatznummerSA008
FachzeitschriftJournal of the Physical Society of Japan
Jahrgang80
AusgabenummerSUPPL. A
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juli 2011
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Schlagworte

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Schlagwörter

  • Effective mass, Ferromagnetic instability, Ferromagnetism, Superconductivity, UCoGe, URhGe

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