Possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconducting state in CeCoIn5.
We report specific heat measurements of the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 in the vicinity of the superconducting critical field H(c2), with magnetic fields in the [110], [100], and [001] directions, and at temperatures down to 50 mK. The superconducting phase transition changes from second to first order for fields above 10 T for H parallel [110] and H parallel [100]. In the same range of magnetic fields, we observe a second specific heat anomaly within the superconducting state. We interpret this anomaly as a signature of a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) inhomogeneous superconducting state. We obtain similar results for H parallel [001], with the FFLO state occupying a smaller part of the phase diagram.
Bianchi
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
Movshovich
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Capan
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Pagliuso
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Sarrao
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