Reentrant superconductivity driven by quantum tricritical fluctuations in URhGe; Evidence from Co NMR in URhCoGe
Tokunaga, Yo ; Aoki, Dai*; Mayaffre, H.*; Krmer, S.*; Julien, M.-H.*; Berthier, C.*; Horvati, M.*; Sakai, Hironori ; Kambe, Shinsaku ; Araki, Shingo*
Our measurements of the Co NMR spin-spin relaxation in URhCoGe reveal a divergence of electronic spin fluctuations in the vicinity of the field-induced quantum critical point at T, around which reentrant superconductivity (RSC) occurs in the ferromagnetic heavy fermion compound URhGe. We show that critical fluctuations develop in the same limited region near the field as that where RSC is observed. This strongly suggests these quantum fluctuations as the pairing glue responsible for the RSC. The fluctuations observed are characteristic of a tricritical point.