Unusual nature of ferromagnetism coexisting with superconductivity in UGe2.
We report the discovery of a jump in the magnetization of a macroscopic single crystalline sample of UGe2 that shows coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity. In particular, we observe that the jump occurs at regular intervals of field and only at very low temperatures. This novel feature implies that the magnetic field induces a sudden change of the direction of the magnetization between two equivalent easy axes of magnetization even in a macroscopic sample. We ascribe it to a field-tuned resonant tunneling between quantum spin states, and we propose that the size of a magnetic domain is smaller than a superconducting coherence length.
Nishioka
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Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
Motoyama
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Nakamura
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Kadoya
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Sato
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