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A review of UTe$_2$ at high magnetic fields

Superconductivity 2025-03-18 v2

Abstract

Uranium ditelluride (UTe2_2) is recognized as a host material to unconventional spin-triplet superconductivity, but it also exhibits a wealth of additional unusual behavior at high magnetic fields. One of the most prominent signatures of the unconventional superconductivity is a large and anisotropic upper critical field that exceeds the paramagnetic limit. This superconductivity survives to 35 T and is bounded by a discontinuous magnetic transition, which itself is also field-direction-dependent. A different, reentrant superconducting phase emerges only on the high-field side of the magnetic transition, in a range of angles between the crystallographic bb and cc axes. This review discusses the current state of knowledge of these high-field phases, the high-field behavior of the heavy fermion normal state, and other phases that are stabilized by applied pressure.

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@article{arxiv.2402.06850,
  title  = {A review of UTe$_2$ at high magnetic fields},
  author = {Sylvia K. Lewin and Corey E. Frank and Sheng Ran and Johnpierre Paglione and Nicholas P. Butch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06850},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

34 pages, 12 figures (v2 corrects b axis lattice parameter)