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The compound UTe2 is of great recent interest as a spin triplet superconductor that is thought to realize a topologically nontrivial superconducting order parameter. Though UTe2 is considered to be a heavy fermion material, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-08 Shouzheng Liu , L. Andrew Wray

Reentrant superconductivity is a phenomenon in which the destructive effects of magnetic field on superconductivity are mitigated, allowing a zero-resistance state to survive under conditions that would otherwise destroy it. Typically, 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 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…

Applied magnetic fields underlie exotic quantum states, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect and Bose-Einstein condensation of spin excitations. Superconductivity, on the other hand, is inherently antagonistic towards magnetic fields.…

We present thermoelectric power and resistivity measurements in the ferromagnetic superconductor URhGe for magnetic field applied along the hard magnetization b axis of the orthorhombic crystal. Reentrant superconductivity is observed near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Adrien Gourgout , Alexandre Pourret , Georg Knebel , Dai Aoki , Gabriel Seyfarth , Jacques Flouquet

High quality single crystals of a ferromagnetic superconductor URhGe were successfully grown. The electrical resistivity was measured for the field along b-axis in the orthorhombic crystal structure in order to study precisely its field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Atsushi Miyake , Dai Aoki , Jacques Flouquet

The heavy fermion metamagnet uranium ditelluride possesses two distinct magnetic field--induced superconducting states. One of these superconductive phases resides at magnetic fields immediately below a first-order metamagnetic transition…

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 field-reentrant (field-reinforced) superconductivity on ferromagnetic superconductors is one of the most interesting topics in unconventional superconductivity. The enhancement of effective mass and the induced ferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Dai Aoki , Georg Knebel , Jacques Flouquet

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 phase diagram of the heavy fermion compound UTe$_2$ contains multiple superconducting phases, several of which show characteristics of odd-parity pairing. We have investigated the pressure dependence of the superconducting transition in…

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

We report calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ and discuss the results in terms of the observed superconductivity near magnetism. We find that YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ is a material near a magnetic quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-22 David J. Singh

In ferromagnetic superconductors, like URhGe, superconductivity co-exists with magnetism near zero field, but then re-appears again in a finite field range, where the system also displays mass enhancement in the normal state. We present…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Yury Sherkunov , Andrey V. Chubukov , Joseph J. Betouras

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

Thermoelectric power ($S$) and Hall effect ($R_\mathrm{H}$) measurements on the paramagnetic superconductor UTe$_2$ with magnetic field applied along the hard magnetization $b$-axis are reported. The first order nature of the metamagnetic…

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 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

Magnetic field induced superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon, whose origin is yet to be fully understood. The recently discovered spin triplet superconductor, UTe2, exhibits two such superconducting phases, with the second…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Sheng Ran , Shanta R. Saha , I-Lin Liu , David Graf , Johnpierre Paglione , Nicholas P. Butch