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Revealing a 3D Fermi Surface Pocket and Electron-Hole Tunneling in UTe$_{2}$ with Quantum Oscillations

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-07-25 v2

Abstract

Spin triplet superconductor UTe2_{2} is widely believed to host a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi surface, revealed by first principal calculations, photoemission and quantum oscillation measurements. An outstanding question still remains as to the existence of a three-dimensional Fermi surface pocket, which is crucial for our understanding of the exotic superconducting and topological properties of UTe2_{2}. This 3D Fermi surface pocket appears in various theoretical models with different physics origins but has not been detected experimentally. Here for the first time, we provide concrete evidence for a relatively isotropic, small Fermi surface pocket of UTe2_{2} via quantum oscillation measurements. In addition, we observed high frequency quantum oscillations corresponding to electron-hole tunneling between adjacent electron and hole pockets. The coexistence of 2D and 3D Fermi surface pockets, as well as the breakdown orbits, provides a test bed for theoretical models and aid the realization of a unified understanding of superconducting state of UTe2_{2} from the first-principles approach.

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@article{arxiv.2303.09050,
  title  = {Revealing a 3D Fermi Surface Pocket and Electron-Hole Tunneling in UTe$_{2}$ with Quantum Oscillations},
  author = {Christopher Broyles and Zack Rehfuss and Hasan Siddiquee and Jiahui Althena Zhu and Kaiwen Zheng and Martin Nikolo and David Graf and John Singleton and Sheng Ran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.09050},
  year   = {2023}
}