Specific heat at the transition in a superconductor with fluctuating magnetic moments
01 August 2003
In the heavy-fermion materials CeCoIn5 and UBe13, the superconducting order parameter is coupled to fluctuating magnetization of the uncompensated part of the localized f moments. We find that this coupling decreases the superconducting transition temperature and increases the jump of the specific-heat coefficient, which indicates entropy transfer from the magnetic to the superconducting degree of freedom at the transition temperature. Below the transition, we find that the magnetic fluctuations are suppressed. We discuss the relation of our results to experiments on CeCoIn5 under pressure.