Pl. Gammel et al., Enhanced critical currents of superconducting ErNi2B2C in the ferromagnetically ordered state, PHYS REV L, 84(11), 2000, pp. 2497-2500
We report on transport and magnetization studies of the critical current in
single crystal ErNi2B2C for applied fields below 4 kG. Below T approximate
to 2.5 K superconductivity coexists with weak ferromagnetism. We fmd that
the critical currents are strongly enhanced for all field orientations in t
his ferromagnetic regime, corresponding to a threefold increase of the pinn
ing force of the flux line lattice. We speculate that this increase is due
to strong pair breaking by the ferromagnetism.