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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

Topological superconductivity is a long-sought state of matter in bulk materials, and odd-parity superconductor UTe$_2$ is a prime candidate. The recent observation of a field-trainable spontaneous Kerr signal in UTe$_2$ at the onset of…

A chiral superconductor has been proposed as one pathway to realize topological quantum computation utilizing the predicted Majorana normal fluid at its boundary (i.e., a point, edge, or surface). The search for experimental realizations…

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

The vortex dynamics in the spin-triplet superconductor, UTe$_2$, are studied by measuring the DC electrical resistivity with currents along the $a$-axis under magnetic fields along the $b$-axis. Surprisingly, we have discovered an island…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-03 Y. Tokiwa , H. Sakai. S. Kambe , P. Opletal , E. Yamamoto , M. Kimata , S. Awaji , T. Sasaki , Y. Yanase , Y. Haga , Y. Tokunaga

Superconductivity of transition metal dichalcogenide $1T$-TiTe$_2$ under high pressure was investigated by the first-principles calculations. Our results show that the superconductivity of $1T$-TiTe$_2$ exhibits very different behavior…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-27 R. C. Xiao , W. J. Lu , D. F. Shao , J. Y. Li , M. J. Wei , H. Y. Lv , P. Tong , X. B. Zhu , Y. P. Sun

Periodic spatial modulations of the superfluid density, or pair density waves, have now been widely detected in unconventional superconductors, either as the primary or the secondary states accompanying charge density waves. Understanding…

Topological superconductors have long been sought for their potential use in quantum computing. The type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe$_{2}$ is an obvious candidate, exhibiting a superconducting state below 500 mK at ambient pressure, but the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-20 M. M. Piva , L. O. Kutelak , R. Borth , Y. Liu , C. Petrovic , R. D. dos Reis , M. Nicklas

The microscopic mechanism of Cooper pairing in a superconductor leaves its fingerprint on the symmetry of the order parameter. UTe$_2$ has been inferred to have a multi-component order parameter that entails exotic effects like time…

In most superconductors electrons form Cooper pairs in a spin-singlet state mediated by either phonons or by long-range interactions such as spin fluctuations. The superconductor UTe$_2$ is a rare material wherein electrons are believed to…

Superconductivity in UTe$_{2}$ has garnered significant attention, as it is widely recognized as a promising candidate for a spin-triplet superconductor. However, the symmetry of superconductivity and the microscopic origin of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Ryuji Hakuno , Youichi Yanase

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 have performed the $^{125}$Te-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement in the field along the $b$ axis on the newly discovered superconductor UTe$_2$, which is a candidate of a spin-triplet superconductor. The nuclear spin-lattice…

The heavy-fermion compound UTe$_2$ is a candidate for hosting intrinsic spin-triplet superconductivity. At present, however, the type of triplet Cooper pairing realized in UTe$_2$ remains unknown, which calls for further experimental and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-25 Hans Christiansen , Max Geier , Brian M. Andersen , Andreas Kreisel

We report on the itinerant ferromagnetic superconductor UGe_2 through ^73Ge-NQR measurements under pressure (P). The P dependence of the NQR spectrum signals a first-order transition from the low-temperature (T) and low-P ferromagnetic…

The crystal structure of the new superconductor UTe2 has been investigated for the first time at low temperature (LT) of 2.7 K, just closely above the superconducting transition temperature of about 1.7 K by single crystal neutron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-14 V. Hutanu , H. Deng , S. Ran , W. T. Fuhrman , H. Thoma , N. P. Butch

Recently, A2B3 type strong spin orbital coupling compounds such as Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3 and Sb2Te3 were theoretically predicated to be topological insulators and demonstrated through experimental efforts. The counterpart compound Sb2Se3 on the…

The discovery of multiple superconducting phases in UTe2 boosted research on correlated-electron physics. This heavy-fermion paramagnet was rapidly identified as a reference compound to study the interplay between magnetism and…

This study investigates the spin susceptibility in U-based superconductor UTe$_2$ in the superconducting (SC) state by using Knight shift measurements for a magnetic field $H$ along the $a$ axis, which is the magnetic easy axis of UTe$_2$.…

Field-angle-resolved specific-heat measurements were performed on a clean single crystal of a spin-triplet superconductor UTe$_2$ with $T_{\rm c}=2.1$ K and a low residual electronic specific heat. At low temperatures, the specific heat…