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26 April 1982
It is shown that the coexistence of magnetic order and superconductivity in ErRh4B 4 and HoMo6Ss can not be described if the exchange interaction is neglected and that the Ginzburg-Landau approach is not applicable to these systems.
Now, two questions arise: (i) What are the contributions from the ex and the em terms to the properties
of the real systems, like ErRh4B 4 and HoMo6S8?
Which type of interaction dominates in the determination of the wave vector Q and of the critical temperatures Tin, Tc2 and so on. (ii) Is it correct to study the
systems like ErRh4B 4 (and HoMo6S8) in the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approach?
In one of the frequently cited papers [5], which
treats ferromagnetic superconductors phenomenologically, the GL approach was suggested. Moreover, in
this paper the ex interaction between the superconducting and the magnetic subsystems was neglected.
On the basis of these assumptions the helical (spiral)
magnetic structure in the superconducting state was
predicted.
Later, in ref. [6] Greenside, Blount and Varma
(GBV) gave the following criterion for when the inhomogeneous magnetic state in a superconductor (ms
state) may be described by the Ginzburg-Landau (GL)
expansion without the ex terms:
Tmag/Tc ,~ 47r.
(1)
Here Tma8 ~ J 2/E F is the magnetic transition temperaturedue to the ex interaction between the superconducting and the magnetic subsystems, J is the ex93
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change energy of the conduction electrons with magnetic moments, and Tc is the superconducting transition temperature Tel.
In this paper we show that the criterion (1) is not
sufficient to neglect the ex terms in the framework of
the GL theory, and actually that much smaller values
of Tmag/Tc are needed to do this. It seems quite impossible to fulfill this correct condition on Tmag/Tc
in real systems, and certainly this condition is violated
in ErRh4B 4. So we conclude that the theories [5,6]
which ignore the ex interaction are not appropriate
for the description of real compounds like ErRh4B 4
and HoMo6S 8. We also show that the GL approach
is not applicable for the study of real systems, like
ErRh4B 4 (and HoMo6S8).
In refs. [5,6] the following GL functional, which
should describe magnetic superconductors is considered
5r = f d 3 r [F s + F m + e(1)
ex + e(2)
ex 1
J ,
F s = T1a l f f
12
+ ~l b l f f l 4 + p 0 1 ( 7 - i r o h ) ~ l
PO = h2 /2m ,
ro = 2e/hc ,
1
F m =alMI 2 +/31MI4 +$~,IM[
2 -B.n+n2/87r
e(1)_
e(2)
~ / 2=1 7 M I 2 l f f l 2 e x ,
r/1 ~ j 2 / T c E F =Tmag/Tc,
r/2 =~2~71 ,
(2)
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X2(T) = X2Te/2(Tc _ T ) ,
(3)
( r < Tm).
(4)
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