Field-induced magnetic instability within a superconducting condensate.
Daniel Gabriel MazzoneStéphane RaymondJorge Luis GavilanoEric RessoucheChristof NiedermayerJonas Okkels BirkBachir OuladdiafGaël BastienGeorg KnebelDai AokiGérard LapertotMichel KenzelmannPublished in: Science advances (2017)
The application of magnetic fields, chemical substitution, or hydrostatic pressure to strongly correlated electron materials can stabilize electronic phases with different organizational principles. We present evidence for a field-induced quantum phase transition, in superconducting Nd0.05Ce0.95CoIn5, that separates two antiferromagnetic phases with identical magnetic symmetry. At zero field, we find a spin-density wave that is suppressed at the critical field μ0H* = 8 T. For H > H*, a spin-density phase emerges and shares many properties with the Q phase in CeCoIn5. These results suggest that the magnetic instability is not magnetically driven, and we propose that it is driven by a modification of superconducting condensate at H*.