Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-10-07
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 78 (2009) 113709
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Scientific paper
10.1143/JPSJ.78.113709
Magnetoresistivity measurements with fine tuning of the field direction on high quality single crystals of the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe show anomalous anisotropy of the upper critical field H_c2. H_c2 for H // b-axis (H_c2^b) in the orthorhombic crystal structure is strongly enhanced with decreasing temperature with an S-shape and reaches nearly 20 T at 0 K. The temperature dependence of H_c2^a shows upward curvature with a low temperature value exceeding 30 T, while H_c2^c at 0 K is very small (~ 0.6 T). Contrary to conventional ferromagnets, the decrease of the Curie temperature with increasing field for H // b-axis marked by an enhancement of the effective mass of the conduction electrons appears to be the origin of the S-shaped H_c2^b curve. These results indicate that the field-induced ferromagnetic instability or magnetic quantum criticality reinforces superconductivity.
Aoki Dai
Flouquet Jacques
Hassinger Elena
Knebel Georg
Matsuda Tatsuma D.
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