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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

We report on the crystal structure and electronic properties of the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 at high pressure up to 11 GPa, as investigated by X-ray diffraction and electrical resistivity experiments. The X-ray diffraction…

We investigated the thermodynamic property of the heavy fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ in pulsed high magnetic fields. The superconducting transition in zero field was observed at $T_{\rm c}$=1.65 K as a sharp heat capacity jump.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-23 Shusaku Imajo , Yoshimitsu Kohama , Atsushi Miyake , Chao Dong , Masashi Tokunaga , Jacques Flouquet , Koichi Kindo , Dai Aoki

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…

Pressure-induced changes in the magnetic and superconducting properties of a spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2 have attracted considerable interest, underscoring the need for microscopic theoretical insight. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-20 Makoto Shimizu , Youichi Yanase

There has been a recent surge of interest in UTe$_2$ due to its unconventional magnetic field (H) reinforced spin-triplet superconducting phases persisting at fields far above the simple Pauli limit for H $\parallel$ [010]. Magnetic fields…

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

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 a quantitative calorimetric study of UTe2 under pressure with a direct measurement of the Sommerfeld gamma coefficient, showing a three-fold enhancement of electronic effective mass when approaching the critical pressure where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-01 T. Vasina , M. Pfeiffer , R. Borth , M. Nicklas , M. Amano Patino , G. Lapertot , J. -P. Brison , E. Hassinger , G. Knebel , D. Braithwaite

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

We experimentally determine the bounds of the magnetic-field-induced superconducting and magnetic phases near the crystalline $b$ axis of uranium ditelluride (UTe$_2$). By measuring the magnetoresistance as a function of rotation angle and…

Recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and calorimetric experiments have observed that UTe$_2$ exhibits a transition between two distinct superconducting phases as a function of magnetic field strength for a field applied along the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-28 Josephine J. Yu , Yue Yu , Daniel F. Agterberg , Srinivas Raghu

The link between the metamagnetic transition and novel spin-triplet superconductivity of UTe$_2$ was discussed thermodynamically through magnetostriction measurements in a pulsed-magnetic field. We revealed a discontinuous magnetostriction…

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

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 recently discovered superconductor UTe$_2$, with a T$_c$ between 1.5~K and 2~K, is attracting much attention due to strong suspicion of spin-triplet and topological superconductivity. Its properties under magnetic field are also…

We report the magnetic susceptibility and the magnetization under pressures up to 1.7GPa above the critical pressure, Pc ~ 1.5GPa, for H // a, b, c-axes in the novel spin triplet superconductor UTe2. The anisotropic magnetic susceptibility…

The putative spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 has an Ising-like magnetic anisotropy, indicating the Cooper pair spins parallel to the easy-axis. However, the upper critical field for the hard-axis direction is much larger than that for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-18 Kozo Hiranuma , Satoshi Fujimoto

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…

We report high pressure studies on the C-type antiferromagnetic semiconductor EuTe2 up to 36.0 GPa. A structural transition from the I4/mcm to C2/m space group is identified at ~16 GPa. Superconductivity is discovered above ~5 GPa in both…