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Symmetry properties of the order parameter are among the most fundamental characteristics of a superconductor. The pairing symmetry of recently discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 featuring an exceedingly large upper critical field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-19 Zixuan Li , Camilla M. Moir , Nathan J. McKee , Eric Lee-Wong , Ryan E. Baumbach , M. Brian Maple , Ying Liu

We use the microscopic weak coupling theory to predict the pairing state in superconductors of cubic, hexagonal, or tetragonal symmetry, where the order parameter is multicomponent, i.e., transforms according to either a 2-dimensional or a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V Kuznetsova , V. Barzykin

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…

Discontinuities in elastic constants are detected at the superconducting transition of layered organic conductors \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_{2}X by longitudinal and transverse ultrasonic velocity measurements. Symmetry arguments show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-14 Maxime Dion , David Fournier , Mario Poirier , Kim D. Truong , A. -M. S. Tremblay

There is considerable evidence that the heavy fermion material UTe$_2$ is a spin-triplet superconductor, possibly manifesting time-reversal symmetry breaking, as measured by Kerr effect and muon spin resonance experiments below the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-25 Vivek Mishra , Ge Wang , P. J. Hirschfeld

UTe$_2$ has been the focus of numerous experimental and theoretical studies in recent years, as it is recognized as an odd-parity bulk superconductor. Its surface has also been probed, revealing charge density wave (CDW), pair density wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Andras Szabo , Aline Ramires

We calculate the ultrasonic absorption and the thermal conductivity in the superconducting state of UPt$_{3}$ as functions of temperature and direction of propagation and polarization. Two leading candidates for the superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. C. Wu , R. Joynt

A lot of attention has been drawn to superconductivity in UTe$_2$, with suggestions of time-reversal symmetry breaking triplet chiral superconducting order parameter. The chirality of the order parameter has been attributed to an accidental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-12 Daniel Shaffer , Dmitry Chichinadze

Topological superconductivity is the quantum condensate of paired electrons with an odd parity of the pairing function. One of the candidates is the triplet pairing superconductor derived from topological insulator Bi2Se3 by chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 Guan Du , Yufeng Li , J. Schneeloch , R. D. Zhong , Genda Gu , Huan Yang , Hai-Hu Wen

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

We study the properties of an anisotropically paired superconductor in the presence of a specularly reflecting surface. The bulk stable phase of the superconducting order parameter is taken to have $d_{x^2-y^2}$ symmetry. Contributions by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 L. J. Buchholtz , Mario Palumbo , D. Rainer , J. A. Sauls

A three-component Ginzburg-Landau theory for a triplet pairing is developed to understand the observed multiple phases in a new superconductor UTe$_2$ under pressure. Near the critical pressure $P_{\rm cr}$=0.2GPa where all components are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-01 Kazushige Machida

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 existence of multiple superconducting phases induced by either pressure or magnetic field is one of the most striking features of superconductivity of UTe$_2$, among the many unusual superconducting properties of this system. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-24 T. Vasina , D. Aoki , A. Miyake , G. Seyfarth , A. Pourret , C. Marcenat , M. Amano Patino , G. Lapertot , J. Flouquet , J. -P. Brison , D. Braithwaite , G. Knebel

One of the recurring hurdles in studying unconventional superconductivity is the challenge of efficiently and conclusively identifying the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in a new material. Uranium ditelluride (UTe$_2$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Ian M. Hayes , Elliot Fang , Shanta R. Saha , Vivek Mishra , P. J. Hirschfeld , Johnpierre Paglione

The elastic constants of an unconventional superconductor, UTe$_2$, were investigated using ultrasound. In this paper, we report the elastic response of the normal state at temperatures down to 2 K and up to 14 T for $H \parallel b$ at…

More than two decades after the discovery of superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, it is still unclear whether the order parameter has a single component or two degenerate components. For any two-component scenario, application of uniaxial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Eli Mueller , Yusuke Iguchi , Christopher Watson , Clifford Hicks , Yoshiteru Maeno , Kathryn Moler

We discuss the effect of a secondary component of the superconducting order parameter on the superfluid density in the cuprates. If we assume a main $d_{x^2-y^2}$ gap, the most stable realization of a mixed order parameter has a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-19 Angelo Valli , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Massimo Capone , Carlo Di Castro

Superconductivity in three dimensions is almost universally governed by Ginzburg-Landau mean field theory, with critical fluctuations typically confined to within a few percent of the transition temperature ($T_{\rm c}$). We report that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-15 Sahas Kamat , Jared Dans , Shanta Saha , Daniel F. Agterberg , Johnpierre Paglione , B. J. Ramshaw

The search for a material platform for topological quantum computation has recently focused on unconventional superconductors. Such material systems, where the superconducting order parameter breaks a symmetry of the crystal point group,…