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The recently discovered spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2 with Tc = 2 K has attracted enormous attention because it possesses many interesting properties, such as the extremely high upper critical field Hc2(0), chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Qing Li , Zhe-Ning Xiang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Ying-Jie Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Hai-Hu Wen

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 novel spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2 was discovered only recently at the end of 2018 and attracted enormous attention. We review key experimental and theoretical progress which has been achieved in different laboratories.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-18 D. Aoki , J. -P. Brison , J. Flouquet , K. Ishida , G. Knebel , Y. Tokunaga , Y. Yanase

A structural orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition was recently discovered in the heavy-fermion compound UTe$_2$ at a pressure $p^*\simeq3-8$~GPa [Honda \textit{et al.}, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. \textbf{92}, 044702 (2023); Huston \textit{et…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 T. Thebault , D. Braithwaite , G. Lapertot , D. Aoki , G. Knebel , W. Knafo

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…

Reentrant superconductivity has been observed in the candidate spin-triplet superconductor UTe$_2$ as a function of the magnetic field applied along the hard axis. Resistivity measurements have shown, a broadened superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-11 Yue Yu , S. Raghu

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…

Inspired by the observation of extreme field-boosted superconductivity in uranium ditelluride, we present a scenario in which superconductivity can be induced by a strong Zeeman field, rather than destroyed by it, as is the case in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-27 Josephine J. Yu , Yue Yu , Chaitanya Murthy , Srinivas Raghu

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…

We have investigated the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}(H)$ of superconductiv ity in quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) tight-binding electrons in a strong magnetic field. When the magnetic field is parallel to 2D conducting plane, $T_{\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Mitake Miyazaki , Keita Kishigi , Yasumasa Hasegawa

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…

The superconducting state of the heavy-fermion metal UTe$_2$ has attracted considerable interest because of evidence for spin-triplet Cooper pairing and non-trivial topology. Progress on these questions requires identifying the presence or…

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 $H$--$T$ 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…

The complex magnetic transitions and superconductivity of HoNi2B2C were studied via the dependence of the heat capacity on temperature and in-plane field angle. We provide an extended, comprehensive magnetic phase diagram for B // [100] and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tuson Park , M. B. Salamon , Eun Mi Choi , Heon Jung Kim , Sung-Ik Lee

Nonunitary superconductivity is a rare and striking phenomenon in which spin up and spin down electrons segregate into two different quantum condensates. Because they support topological excitations, such superconductors are being seriously…

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 normal-conducting state of the superconductor UTe$_2$ is studied by entropy analysis for magnetic fields along the $b$-axis, obtained from magnetization using the relation $(\partial M/\partial T)_B=(\partial S/\partial B)_T$. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 Y. Tokiwa , . P. Opletal , H. Sakai , S. Kambe , E. Yamamoto , M. Kimata , S. Awaji , T. Sasaki , D. Aoki , Y. Haga , Y. Tokunaga

We present different transport measurements up to fields of 29~T in the recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_{2}$ with magnetic field $H$ applied along the easy magnetization a-axis of the body-centered orthorhombic…

The field-dependent magnetization of UTe$_2$ was measured through the metamagnetic transition at a variety of field angles, tracking how the step in magnetization evolves with fields tilted away from the $b$ axis. For fields oriented within…