Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

A peak in the critical current for quantum critical superconductors

  • Soon-Gil Jung,
  • Soonbeom Seo,
  • Sangyun Lee,
  • Eric D. Bauer,
  • Han-Oh Lee,
  • Tuson Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02899-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Knowledge of critical current may provide important information to understand unconventional superconductivity and quantum critical behavior. Here, Jung et al. observe a peak in the pressure dependence of the zero-field critical current at a hidden quantum critical point in pure and Sn-doped heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5.