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Chiral spin-triplet superconductivity is a topologically nontrivial pairing state with broken time-reversal symmetry, which can host Majorana quasiparticles. The recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ exhibits peculiar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 K. Ishihara , M. Roppongi , M. Kobayashi , Y. Mizukami , H. Sakai , Y. Haga , K. Hashimoto , T. Shibauchi

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

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

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 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…

We propose the magnetic exciton mediated superconductivity occurring in the enigmatic hidden-order phase of URu2Si2. The characteristic of the massive collective excitation observed only in the hidden-order phase is well reproduced by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Hiroaki Kusunose

We examine the magnetic and electrical transport properties of the hexagonal EuIn2As2 compound, combining experimental and theoretical results. This compound is predicted to be an axion-insulator from an electronic point of view and an…

We report the magnetoresistance of high-quality single crystals of UTe2 with Tc=2.1K in high magnetic fields up to 36T, with the field direction between the b and c-axes. From the angular dependence of the upper critical field Hc2, we found…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Dai Aoki , Ilya Sheikin , Nils Marquardt , Gerard Lapertot , Jacques Flouquet , Georg Knebel

The orthorhombic uranium dichalcogenide UTe$_2$ displays superconductivity below 1.7 K, with the anomalous feature of retaining 50$\%$ of normal state (ungapped) carriers, according to heat capacity data from two groups. Incoherent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-09 Alexander B. Shick , Warren E. Pickett

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

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 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

UTe$_2$ is a recently discovered unconventional superconductor that has attracted much interest due to its many intriguing properties - a large residual density-of-states in the superconducting state, re-entrant superconductivity in high…

We present a detailed study of the electrical transport properties of a recently discovered iron-based superconductor: Sm$_4$Fe$_2$As$_2$Te$_{0.72}$O$_{2.8}$F$_{1.2}$. We followed the temperature dependence of the upper critical field by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-20 A Pisoni , S Katrych , P Szirmai , B Náfrádi , R Gaál , J Karpinski , L Forró

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

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…

Epitaxial thin films of the heavy fermion superconductor UNi2Al3 with Tc{max}=0.98K were investigated. The transition temperature Tc depends on the current direction which can be related to superconducting gaps opening at different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Jourdan , A. Zakharov , M. Foerster , H. Adrian

Vortex motion plays a central role in determining the resistance of two-dimensional superconductors, both in the context of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and in the mixed state of type-II superconductors under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-09 Zhipeng Xu , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion material UTe$_2$ has reinvigorated research of spin-triplet superconductivity. We perform a theoretical study of coupled two-component spin-triplet superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-23 Henrik S. Røising , Max Geier , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen

The phase diagram of the heavy fermion compound UTe$_2$ contains multiple superconducting phases, several of which show characteristics of odd-parity pairing. We have investigated the pressure dependence of the superconducting transition in…