Kirkpatrick T R, Belitz D
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Jan 23;92(3):037001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.037001. Epub 2004 Jan 22.
Two predictions are made for properties of the ferromagnetic superconductors discovered recently. The first one is that spin-triplet, p-wave pairing in such materials will give the magnons a mass inversely proportional to the square of the magnetization. The second one is based on a specific mechanism for p-wave pairing and predicts that the observed broad anomaly in the specific heat of URhGe will be resolved into a split transition with increasing sample quality. These predictions will help discriminate between different possible mechanisms for ferromagnetic superconductivity.