Magnetism and superconductivity in ferromagnetic heavy-fermion system UCoGe under in-plane magnetic fields

Yasuhiro Tada; Shintaro Takayoshi; Satoshi Fujimoto

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174512

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Magnetism and superconductivity in ferromagnetic heavy-fermion system UCoGe under in-plane magnetic fields

Yasuhiro Tada, Shintaro Takayoshi, Satoshi Fujimoto

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174512 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe at ambient pressure under ab-plane magnetic fields H, which are perpendicular to the ferromagnetic easy axis. It is shown that, by taking into account the Dyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction arising from the zigzag chain crystal structure of UCoGe, we can qualitatively explain the experimentally observed in-plane anisotropy for critical magnetic fields of the paramagnetic transition. Because of this strong dependence on the magnetic field direction, upper critical fields of superconductivity, which is mediated by ferromagnetic spin fluctuations, also become strongly anisotropic. The experimental observation of S-shaped Hc2∥b axis is qualitatively explained as a result of enhancement of the spin fluctuations due to decreased Curie temperature by the b-axis magnetic field. We also show that the S-shaped Hc2 is accompanied by a rotation of the d vector, which would be a key to understand the experiments not only at ambient pressure but also under pressure.

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
UCoGe Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	0.6	Pressure unresolved	unknown
URhGe Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
UGe2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
ErRh4B4 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
HoMo6S8 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown