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The reentrant superconductivity is the peculiar phenomenon observed in paramagnetic metal UTe$_2$ in magnetic field parallel to the hard magnetisation axis. It is difficult to explain it in terms of field dependent intensity of magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-15 V. P. Mineev

At temperatures much lower than its superconducting critical temperature $T_c$ of 2.1 K, the heavy fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ has a remarkable phase diagram of magnetic field $H$ vs. angles $\phi$ and $\theta$ at which $H$ is tilted…

A structural orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition was recently discovered in the heavy-fermion compound UTe$_2$ at a pressure $p^*\simeq3-8$~GPa [Honda \textit{et al.}, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. \textbf{92}, 044702 (2023); Huston \textit{et…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 T. Thebault , D. Braithwaite , G. Lapertot , D. Aoki , G. Knebel , W. Knafo

Multiple superconducting order parameters are extremely rare. Here we show that a very small pressure can induce this phenomenon in the recently discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe2. This nearly ferromagnetic system shows several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-25 D. Braithwaite , M. Valiska , G. Knebel , G. Lapertot , J. -P. Brison , A. Pourret , M. E. Zhitomirsky , J. Flouquet , F. Honda , D. Aoki

The electrical resistivity measurements in the magnetic field are carried out on the pressure-induced superconductor UGe$_2$. The superconductivity is observed from 1.06 to 1.44 GPa. The upper critical field of $H_{C2}$ is anisotropic where…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 T. C. Kobayashi , K. Hanazono , N. Tateiwa , K. Amaya , Y. Haga , R. Settai , Y. Onuki

Inelastic-neutron-scattering measurements were performed on a single crystal of the heavy-fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ above its superconducting temperature. We confirm the presence of antiferromagnetic fluctuations with the incommensurate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-22 W. Knafo , G. Knebel , P. Steffens , K. Kaneko , A. Rosuel , J. -P. Brison , J. Flouquet , D. Aoki , G. Lapertot , S. Raymond

We grew single crystals of the recently discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe2, and measured the resistivity, specific heat and magnetoresistance. Superconductivity (SC) was clearly detected at Tsc=1.65K as sharp drop of the…

We report first-principles and strongly-correlated calculations of the newly-discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe$_2$. Our analyses reveal three key aspects of its magnetic, electronic, and superconducting properties, that include:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-21 Yuanji Xu , Yutao Sheng , Yi-feng Yang

The heavy fermion material UTe$_2$ hosts a suite of exotic superconducting phases, the most extreme of which resides in a narrow angular window of intense magnetic fields $>$ 40 T. Here we report that in the angular and field regime in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 T. I. Weinberger , H. Chen , Z. Wu , M. Long , A. Cabala , Y. Skourski , J. Sourd , T. Haidamak , V. Sechovsky , M. Valiska , F. M. Grosche , A. G. Eaton

The recently discovered superconductor, UTe$_2$, has attracted immense scientific interest due to the experimental observations that suggest odd-parity superconductivity. It is believed that the material becomes a heavy-fermion metal at low…

A fragile ordered state can be easily tuned by various external parameters. When the ordered state is suppressed to zero temperature, a quantum phase transition occurs, which is often marked by the appearance of unconventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-15 Hyunsoo Kim , I-Lin Liu , Wen-Chen Lin , Yun Suk Eo , Sheng Ran , Nicholas P. Butch , Johnpierre Paglione

We report extensive measurements of quantum oscillations in the normal state of the Fe-based superconductor LaFePO, (Tc ~ 6 K) using low temperature torque magnetometry and transport in high static magnetic fields (45 T). We find that the…

Epitaxial thin films of the heavy fermion superconductor UNi2Al3 with Tc{max}=0.98K were investigated. The transition temperature Tc depends on the current direction which can be related to superconducting gaps opening at different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Jourdan , A. Zakharov , M. Foerster , H. Adrian

Heavy fermion UTe$_2$ is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity that also exhibits multiple high-field superconducting phases. The SC$_{\rm{FP}}$ phase has only been observed in off-axis magnetic fields in the $bc$ plane at…

A technique for measuring the electrical resistivity and absolute thermopower is presented for pressures up to 30 GPa, temperatures down to 25 mK and magnetic fields up to 10 T. With the examples of CeCu2Ge2 and CeCu2Si2 we focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Jaccard , E. Vargoz , K. Alami-Yadri , H. Wilhelm

The normal-state out of which unconventional superconductivity in UTe$_2$ emerges is studied in detail using a variety of thermodynamic and transport probes. Clear evidence for a broad Schottky-like anomaly with roughly R ln 2 entropy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-17 Kristin Willa , Frédéric Hardy , Dai Aoki , Dexin Li , Paul Wiecki , Gérard Lapertot , Christoph Meingast

The heavy fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ exhibits numerous characteristics of spin-triplet superconductivity. Efforts to understand the microscopic details of this exotic superconductivity have been impeded by uncertainty regarding the…

The $H$--$T$ phase diagram of UTe$_2$ for magnetic field along the hard $b$ axis contains an unresolved internal boundary near $\mu_0H \sim 14$--15~T, previously inferred from ac susceptibility and transport experiments but lacking…

We report field and temperature dependent measurements of the thermoelectric power (TEP) across the pseudo-metamagnetic transition (MMT) in CeRu$_2$Si$_2$. We applied the thermoelectric gradient parallel and perpendicular to the field along…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Mounir Boukahil , Alexandre Pourret , Georg Knebel , Dai Aoki , Yoshichika Onuki , Jacques Flouquet

The pressure-temperature phase diagram of the orthorhombic ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe was determined by resistivity measurements up to $10.5~$GPa. The Curie temperature $T_C$ is suppressed with pressure and vanishes at the critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-14 Gael Bastien , Daniel Braithwaite , Dai Aoki , Georg Knebel , Jacques Flouquet