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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

Kondo hybridization in partially filled f-electron systems conveys significant amount of electronic states sharply near the Fermi energy leading to various instabilities from superconductivity to exotic electronic orders. UGe2 is a 5f heavy…

We develop a phenomenological theory for the family of uranium-based heavy fermion superconductors ($URhGe$, $UCoGe$, and $UTe_2$ ). The theory unifies the understanding of both superconductivity(SC) with a weak magnetic field and reentrant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Xilin Feng , Qiang Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Magnetic susceptibility, entropy and specific heat are calculated at the equilibrium points of phase transition to a phase of coexistence of ferromagnetic order and superconductivity in a new class of spin-triplet ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Shopova , D. I. Uzunov

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of FeSe under the in-plane magnetic fields using torque magnetometry, specific heat, magnetocaloric measurements. Below the upper critical field Hc2, we observed the field-induced anomalies at H1…

Identification of pairing mechanisms leading to the unconventional superconductivity realized in copper-oxide, heavy-fermions, and organic compounds is one of the most challenging issues in condensed-matter physics. Clear evidence for an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-21 Y. Tada , S. Fujimoto , N. Kawakami , T. Hattori , Y. Ihara , K. Ishida , K. Deguchi , N. K. Sato , I. Satoh

We study the strong-coupling superconductivity near ferromagnetic quantum critical points, mainly focusing on the upper critical fields $H_{c2}$. Based on our simple model calculations, we discuss experimentally observed unusual behaviors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yasuhiro Tada , Norio Kawakami , Satoshi Fujimoto

At temperatures much lower than its superconducting critical temperature $T_c$ of 2.1 K, the heavy fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ has a remarkable phase diagram of magnetic field $H$ vs. angles $\phi$ and $\theta$ at which $H$ is tilted…

Low-temperature electrical and thermal transport, magnetic penetration depth, and heat capacity measurements were performed on single crystals of the actinide superconductor UTe2 to determine the structure of the superconducting energy gap.…

In our recent study of the high magnetic field phase landscape of UTe$_2$ [Phys. Rev. X 15, 021019 (2025)] we found indirect evidence that the SC3 superconducting phase spills out beyond the first-order phase boundary of the spin-polarized…

The magnon exchange mechanism of superconductivity was developed to explain in a natural way the fact that the superconductivity in $UGe_2$, $ZrZn_2$ and $URhGe$ is confined to the ferromagnetic phase.The order parameter is a spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Karchev

The properties of the novel heavy fermion superconductor Ce$_3$PtIn$_{11}$ are investigated by thermodynamic and transport measurements at ambient and under hydrostatic pressure. At ambient pressure the compound exhibits two successive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-03 Jan Prokleška , Marie Kratochvílová , Klára Uhlířová , Vladimír Sechovský , Jeroen Custers

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$_2$.…

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 identification, control and theoretical modelling of spin-triplet superconductors (STC) remain a central theme in quantum materials research. Intrinsic STC are rare but offer rich condensate properties and unique surface properties…

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

We report on low temperature susceptibility and magnetization measurements made on single crystals of the recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ and compare the results with the two ambient pressure ferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 C. Paulsen , G. Knebel , G. Lapertot , D. Braithwaite , A. Pourret , D. Aoki , F. Hardy , J. Flouquet , J. -P. Brison

Despite intense experimental efforts, the nature of the unconventional superconducting order parameter of UTe$_2$ remains elusive. This puzzle stems from different reported numbers of superconducting transitions at ambient pressure, as well…

The intense interest in triplet superconductivity partly stems from theoretical predictions of exotic excitations such as non-abelian Majorana modes, chiral supercurrents, and half-quantum vortices. However, fundamentally new, 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