TY - JOUR
T1 - Field re-entrant superconductivity induced by the enhancement of effective mass in URhGe
AU - Miyake, Atsushi
AU - Aoki, Dai
AU - Flouquet, Jacques
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - High quality single crystals of a ferromagnetic superconductor URhGe were successfully grown. The electrical resistivity was measured for the field along b-axis in the orthorhombic crystal structure in order to study precisely its field re-entrant superconductivity which occurs in the vicinity of the field HR, where the easy magnetization switches from c- to b-axis. The field re-entrant superconductivity of URhGe is analyzed with special focus on its dependence with the value of residual resistivity ρ0 and the coefficient A of T2 term of the resistivity. The experimental results are well explained by a crude model related with the field dependence of the effective mass m*, where the corresponding critical temperature T sc(m*) and the upper critical field Hc2 are strongly enhanced. Discussion is made on the interplay between magnetic and superconducting phase diagram as well as the link between Tsc and A in other heavy fermion superconductors.
AB - High quality single crystals of a ferromagnetic superconductor URhGe were successfully grown. The electrical resistivity was measured for the field along b-axis in the orthorhombic crystal structure in order to study precisely its field re-entrant superconductivity which occurs in the vicinity of the field HR, where the easy magnetization switches from c- to b-axis. The field re-entrant superconductivity of URhGe is analyzed with special focus on its dependence with the value of residual resistivity ρ0 and the coefficient A of T2 term of the resistivity. The experimental results are well explained by a crude model related with the field dependence of the effective mass m*, where the corresponding critical temperature T sc(m*) and the upper critical field Hc2 are strongly enhanced. Discussion is made on the interplay between magnetic and superconducting phase diagram as well as the link between Tsc and A in other heavy fermion superconductors.
KW - Effective mass
KW - Ferromagnetic superconductor
KW - Field re-entrant superconductivity
KW - URhGe
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U2 - 10.1143/JPSJ.77.094709
DO - 10.1143/JPSJ.77.094709
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:54349119170
SN - 0031-9015
VL - 77
JO - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JF - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
IS - 9
M1 - 094709
ER -