Extremely Large and Anisotropic Upper Critical Field and the Ferromagnetic Instability in UCoGe

Abstract

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.

5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn

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• Superconductivity on the border of weak itinerant ferromagnetism in UCoGe
• Unusual upper critical field of the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe
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• Pressure-temperature phase diagram of ferromagnetic superconductors

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