Thermal Properties of a Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe2

Abstract

Thermal properties of a ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 were investigated by the heat capacity measurements. The bulk nature of the superconductivity was confimied by the observation of a peak in the heat capacity at the superconducting transition temperature TSC, From the pressure dependence of the linear heat capacity coefficient γ, it is suggested that the low energy magnetic excitation near the critical point Pc*, where T* becomes OK, might play an important role on the superconductivity. The pressure dependence of the superconducting peak and the temperature dependence of CIT above TSC suggest that the order parameter of the superconducting state might be different between the phases below and above PC*.