title: Superconducting vortices in CeCoIn5: toward the Pauli-limiting field.
abstract: Many superconducting materials allow the penetration of magnetic fields in a mixed state in which the superfluid is threaded by a regular lattice of Abrikosov vortices, each carrying one quantum of magnetic flux. The phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory, based on the concept of characteristic length scales, has generally provided a good description of the Abrikosov vortex lattice state. We conducted neutron-scattering measurements of the vortex lattice form factor in the heavy-fermion superconductor cerium-cobalt-indium (CeCoIn5) and found that this form factor increases with increasing field-opposite to the expectations within the Abrikosov-Ginzburg-Landau paradigm. We propose that the anomalous field dependence of the form factor arises from Pauli paramagnetic effects around the vortex cores and from the proximity of the superconducting state to a quantum critical point.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. andrea.bianchi@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Andrea D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kenzelmann
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Debeer-Schmitt
authors.forename: Jon S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Edward M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Forgan
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mesot
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zolliker
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kohlbrecher
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Movshovich
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sarrao
authors.forename: Zachary
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authors.lastname: Fisk
authors.forename: Cedomir
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Petrovic
authors.forename: Morten Ring
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Eskildsen