Department of Physics and Centre for the Science of Materials, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Aug 31;121(9):097001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.097001.
In ferromagnetic superconductors, like URhGe, superconductivity coexists with magnetism near zero field, but then reappears in a finite field range, where the system also displays mass enhancement in the normal state. We present the theoretical understanding of this nonmonotonic behavior. We explore the multiband nature of URhGe and associate reentrant superconductivity and mass enhancement with the topological transition (Lifshitz) in one of the bands in a finite magnetic field. We find excellent agreement between our theory and a number of experimental results for URhGe, such as weakly first-order reentrant transition, the dependence of superconducting T_{c} on a magnetic field, and the field dependence of the effective mass, the specific heat, and the resistivity in the normal state. Our theory can be applied to other ferromagnetic multiband superconductors.
在铁磁超导体中,如 URhGe,超导性在零磁场附近与磁性共存,但随后在有限磁场范围内重新出现,在该磁场范围内,系统在正常状态下也显示出质量增强。我们提出了对这种非单调行为的理论理解。我们探讨了 URhGe 的多带性质,并将再入超导性和质量增强与有限磁场中一个带的拓扑转变(Lifshitz 转变)相关联。我们发现,我们的理论与 URhGe 的许多实验结果之间存在极好的一致性,例如弱一级再入转变、超导 T_c 对磁场的依赖性以及正常状态下有效质量、比热和电阻率的磁场依赖性。我们的理论可以应用于其他铁磁多带超导体。