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

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Contributors

  • Dai Aoki - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Tatsuma D. Matsuda - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Japan Atomic Energy Agency (Author)
  • Frédéric Hardy - , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)
  • Christoph Meingast - , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)
  • Valentin Taufour - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Elena Hassinger - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Ilya Sheikin - , French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (Author)
  • Carley Paulsen - , French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (Author)
  • Georg Knebel - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Hisashi Kotegawa - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Jacques Flouquet - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)

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

Original languageEnglish
Article numberSA008
JournalJournal of the Physical Society of Japan
Volume80
Issue numberSUPPL. A
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2011
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

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

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