Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Pairing mechanism in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe

  • Beilun Wu,
  • Gaël Bastien,
  • Mathieu Taupin,
  • Carley Paulsen,
  • Ludovic Howald,
  • Dai Aoki,
  • Jean-Pascal Brison

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14480
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Experimental identification of pairing mechanism in unconventional superconductors is challenging. Here, Wuet al. show that the field dependence of the pairing strength influences the superconducting upper critical field in UCoGe, suggesting the dominant role of ferromagnetic spin fluctuations.