English

Muon spin rotation and relaxation in the superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe

Superconductivity 2015-05-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We report zero-field muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements on the superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe. Weak itinerant ferromagnetic order is detected by a spontaneous muon spin precession frequency below the Curie temperature TC=3T_C = 3 K. The μ+\mu^+ precession frequency persists below the bulk superconducting transition temperature Tsc=0.5T_{sc} = 0.5 K, where it measures a local magnetic field Bloc=0.015B_{loc} = 0.015 T. The amplitude of the μ\muSR signal provides unambiguous proof for ferromagnetism present in the whole sample volume. We conclude ferromagnetism coexists with superconductivity on the microscopic scale.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0532,
  title  = {Muon spin rotation and relaxation in the superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe},
  author = {A. de Visser and N. T. Huy and A. Gasparini and D. E. de Nijs and D. Andreica and C. Baines and A. Amato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0532},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL