Enhancement of superconductivity near the ferromagnetic quantum critical point in UCoGe

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Publication date 2009
Journal Physical Review Letters
Volume | Issue number 103 | 9
Pages (from-to) 097003
Number of pages 4
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI)
Abstract
We report a high-pressure single crystal study of the superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe. Measurements of the ac susceptibility and resistivity under pressures up to 2.2 GPa show ferromagnetism is smoothly depressed and vanishes at a critical pressure p(c)=1.4 GPa. Near the ferromagnetic critical point superconductivity is enhanced. Upper-critical field measurements under pressure show B-c2(0) attains remarkably large values, which provides solid evidence for spin-triplet superconductivity over the whole pressure range. The obtained p-T phase diagram reveals superconductivity is closely connected to a ferromagnetic quantum-critical point hidden under the superconducting "dome."
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.097003
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