Specific-Heat Anomalies at the Lower Critical Temperature in Reentrant Ferromagnetic Superconductors

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2 April 1979

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 42 (14) , 918-921
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.42.918

Abstract

A spike-shaped heat-capacity anomaly has been identified at the lower superconducting-to-normal transition temperature

T_{c 2}

of the magnetic superconducting system (

{Er}_{1 - x} {Ho}_{x}

)-

{Rh}_{4}

B_{4}

. This anomaly can be distinguished from the feature due to long-range magnetic ordering and indicates that the transition at

T_{c 2}

is thermodynamically of first order.

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