Quasiparticle entropy in the high-field superconducting phase of CeCoIn$_5$

Details Quasiparticle entropy in the high-field superconducting phase of CeCoIn$_5$ Quasiparticle entropy in the high-field superconducting phase of CeCoIn$_5$

2012-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/1203.5567v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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The heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ displays an additional transition within its superconducting (SC) state, whose nature is characterized by high-precision studies of the isothermal field dependence of the entropy, derived from combined specific heat and magnetocaloric effect measurements at temperatures $T\geq 100$ mK and fields $H\leq 12$ T aligned parallel, perpendicular and $18^\circ$ off the tetragonal [100] direction. For any of these conditions, we do not observe an additional entropy contribution upon tuning at constant temperature by magnetic field from the homogeneous SC into the presumed Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) SC state. By contrast, for $H\parallel [100]$ a negative isothermal entropy contribution, compatible with spin-density-wave (SDW) ordering, is found. Our data exclude the formation of a FFLO state in CeCoIn$_5$ for out-of-plane field directions, where no SDW order exists.

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