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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…

Recently co-existence of the ferromagnetism and superconductivity was reported in the high-pressure region (1.0-1.6 GPa) in UGe$_2$. We performed the heat capacity measurement on UGe$_2$ under high pressure. At 1.13 GPa, we found a peak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Tateiwa , T. C. Kobayashi , K. Amaya , Y. Haga , R. Settai , Y. Onuki

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

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…

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion material UTe$_2$ has reinvigorated research of spin-triplet superconductivity. We perform a theoretical study of coupled two-component spin-triplet superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-23 Henrik S. Røising , Max Geier , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen

In most unconventional superconductors, like the high-Tc cuprates, iron pnictides, or heavy fermion systems, superconductivity emerges in the proximity of an electronic instability. Identifying unambiguously the pairing mechanism remains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-24 Daniel Braithwaite , Dai Aoki , Jean-Pascal Brison , Jacques Flouquet , Georg Knebel , Ai Nakamura , Alexandre Pourret

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

Spin-triplet superconductivity (SC) offers a unique avenue for realizing non-Abelian Majorana zero modes and thus the fault-tolerant topological quantum computation, and has attracted a broad audience for both fundamental research and…

The influence of hydrostatic pressure and ab-plane strain on the magnetic structure of FeTe is investigated from first principles. The results of calculations reveal a phase transition from antiferromagnetic double-stripe ordering at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-11 A. Ciechan , M. J. Winiarski , M. Samsel-Czekała

UCoGe is one of the few compounds showing the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at ambient pressure. With T_Curie = 3 K and T_SC = 0.6 K it is near a quantum phase transition; the pressure needed to suppress the magnetism…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Hassinger , D. Aoki , G. Knebel , J. Flouquet

We studied the temperature-pressure phase diagram of EuFe2As2 by measurements of the electrical resistivity. The antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave transition at T_0 associated with the FeAs-layers is continuously suppressed with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-20 C. F. Miclea , M. Nicklas , H. S. Jeevan , D. Kasinathan , Z. Hossain , H. Rosner , P. Gegenwart , C. Geibel , F. Steglich

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…

UTe$_{2}$ exhibits the remarkable phenomenon of re-entrant superconductivity, whereby the zero-resistance state reappears above 40 tesla after being suppressed with a field of around 10 tesla. One potential pairing mechanism, invoked in the…

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 discovery in 2000 that the ferromagnetic (FM) compound UGe2 (T_Curie = 52 K at ambient pressure) becomes superconducting under a pressure of P = 1.1 GPa until it enters the paramagnetic (PM) phase above Pc = 1.6 GPa was a surprise.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-31 Dai Aoki , Kenji Ishida , Jacques Flouquet

A heavy-fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ has been a strong candidate for a spin-triplet superconductor. Experiments on UTe$_2$ under pressure have been vigorously conducted, and rich phase diagrams have been suggested. Multiple superconducting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 Makoto Shimizu , Youichi Yanase

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…

Spin-triplet superconductivity is a condensate of electron pairs with spin-1 and an odd-parity wavefunction. A particularly interesting manifestation of triplet pairing is a chiral p-wave state which is topologically non-trivial and a…

The search for a material platform for topological quantum computation has recently focused on unconventional superconductors. Such material systems, where the superconducting order parameter breaks a symmetry of the crystal point group,…

We report the temperature-pressure phase diagram of a UTe$_2$ single crystal that does not undergo a bulk superconducting transition but shows filamentary superconductivity with a critical transition temperature of 1 K at ambient pressure.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-28 M. O. Ajeesh , Joe D. Thompson , Eric D. Bauer , Filip Ronning , Sean M. Thomas , Priscila F. S. Rosa