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The phase landscape of UTe$_2$ features a remarkable diversity of superconducting phases under applied pressure and magnetic field. Recent quantum oscillation studies at ambient pressure have revealed the quasi-2D Fermi surface of this…

We have measured the thermopower across the metamagnetic transition of the heavy fermion compound CeRu2Si2 at temperatures down to 0.1K and magnetic fields up to 11.5T. We find a large negative enhancement of the thermopower on crossing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-31 Heike Pfau , Ramzy Daou , Manuel Brando , Frank Steglich

The electrical resistivity of the unconventional superconductor UTe$_2$ shows very anisotropic behavior in the normal state depending on the current direction. In the present paper we show that the maximum in the resistivity $\rho_c$ for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-24 G. Knebel , A. Pourret , S. Rousseau , N. Marquardt , D. Braithwaite , F. Honda , D. Aoki , G. Lapertot , W. Knafo , G. Seyfarth , J-P. Brison , J. Flouquet

The superconducting state of the heavy-fermion metal UTe$_2$ has attracted considerable interest because of evidence for spin-triplet Cooper pairing and non-trivial topology. Progress on these questions requires identifying the presence or…

One of the recurring hurdles in studying unconventional superconductivity is the challenge of efficiently and conclusively identifying the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in a new material. Uranium ditelluride (UTe$_2$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Ian M. Hayes , Elliot Fang , Shanta R. Saha , Vivek Mishra , P. J. Hirschfeld , Johnpierre Paglione

Fermi-surface topology governs the relationship between magnetism and superconductivity in iron-based materials. Using low-temperature transport, angle-resolved photoemission, and x-ray diffraction we show unambiguous evidence of large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-09 K. Gofryk , B. Saparov , T. Durakiewicz , A. Chikina , S. Danzenbächer , D. V. Vyalikh , M. J. Graf , A. S. Sefat

Details of the electronic band structure in unconventional superconductors are key to the understanding of their fundamental ground state. The potential spin-triplet superconductor UTe$_2$, with $T_\mathrm{c}\approx 2.1\,$K, has attracted…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in heavy Fermion compound UTe2, a candidate topological and triplet-paired superconductor, has aroused widespread interest. However, to date, there is no consensus on whether the stoichiometric…

The recently discovered spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2 with Tc = 2 K has attracted enormous attention because it possesses many interesting properties, such as the extremely high upper critical field Hc2(0), chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Qing Li , Zhe-Ning Xiang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Ying-Jie Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Hai-Hu Wen

The temperature, field, and field-orientation dependences of the electronic specific heat Ce of the ironpnictide superconductor KFe2As2 have been investigated. Thermodynamic evidence of the presence of line nodes is obtained from the T and…

We theoretically study superconductivity in UTe$_2$, which is a recently-discovered strong candidate for an odd-parity spin-triplet superconductor. Theoretical studies for this compound faced difficulty because first-principles calculations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-25 Jun Ishizuka , Shuntaro Sumita , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

An antiferromagnetic transition is observed in single crystal EuRh2As2 at a high temperature T_N = 47 K compared to the ferromagnetic Weiss temperature theta = 12 K. We show that this is, surprisingly, consistent with mean field theory. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-12 Yogesh Singh , Y. Lee , B. N. Harmon , D. C. Johnston

We report the results of high-resolution dc magnetization and specific-heat measurements at very low temperatures for a single crystal \color{black} of UBe$_{13}$ in magnetic fields applied along the [001] and [111] directions, in both the…

Lifshitz transitions are being increasingly recognised as significant in a wide variety of strongly correlated and topological materials, and understanding the origin and influence of Lifshitz transitions is leading to deeper understanding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-17 Roos Leenen , Dai Aoki , Georg Knebel , Alexandre Pourret , Alix McCollam

Uranium ditelluride (UTe$_2$) 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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-18 Sylvia K. Lewin , Corey E. Frank , Sheng Ran , Johnpierre Paglione , Nicholas P. Butch

Superconductivity in the heavy-fermion metal UTe2 survives the application of very high magnetic fields, presenting both an intriguing puzzle and an experimental challenge. The strong, non-perturbative influence of the magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-23 L. Zhang , C. Guo , D. Graf , C. Putzke , M. M. Bordelon , E. D. Bauer , S. M. Thomas , F. Ronning , P. F. S. Rosa , P. J. W. Moll

The newly discovered UTe2 superconductor is regarded as a heavy fermion mixed-valence system with very peculiar properties within the normal and superconducting states. It shows no signs of magnetic order but strong anisotropy of a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 S. Khmelevskyi , L. V. Pourovskii , E. A. Tereshina-Chitrova

The emergence of superconductivity at high magnetic fields in URhGe is regarded as a paradigm for new state formation approaching a quantum critical point. Until now, a divergence of the quasiparticle mass at the metamagnetic transition was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Ed Yelland , Jack Barraclough , Weiwei Wang , Konstantin Kamenev , Andrew Huxley

The highest superconducting temperature T$_c$ observed in any elemental metal (Li with T$_c$ ~ 20 K at pressure P ~ 40 GPa) is shown to arise from critical (formally divergent) electron-phonon coupling to the transverse T$_1$ phonon branch…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Deepa Kasinathan , J. Kunes , A. Lazicki , H. Rosner , C. S. Yoo , R. T. Scalettar , W. E. Pickett

The recent discovery that superconductivity occurs in several clean itinerant ferromagnets close to low temperature magnetic instabilities naturally invites an interpretation based on a proximity to quantum criticality. Here we report…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Pfleiderer , A. D. Huxley