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Competitive Coexistence of Superconductivity with Antiferromagnetism in CeRhIn5

G. F. Chen, K. Matsubayashi, S. Ban, K. Deguchi, N. K. Sato

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.017005 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We carried out ac magnetic susceptibility measurements under pressures P on the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn5. We report bulk superconductivity (SC) at ambient pressure with a transition temperature Tc≃90 mK. The degraded SC in a powdered or polished sample was restored by annealing, showing that the SC state is sensitive to inhomogeneity. In a coexistence region of the SC with antiferromagnetism (AF), we find that Tc(P)nTN(P)1−n=const where TN indicates a Néel temperature and n denotes a ratio of electronic specific heat coefficients below and above TN, indicating the competition of the SC and the AF for states at the Fermi surface.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
CeRhIn5

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0.09Pressure unresolvedonset
CeRhIn5

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2.21.85 GPaunknown

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