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Layered material structures play a key role in enhancing electron-electron interactions to create correlated metallic phases that can transform into unconventional superconducting states. The quasi-two-dimensional electronic properties of…

We report the observation of heavy-fermion superconducitivity in CeCoIn5 at Tc =2.3 K. When compared to the pressure-induced Tc of its cubic relative CeIn3 (Tc ~200 mK), the Tc of CeCoIn5 is remarkably high. We suggest that this difference…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Petrovic , P. G. Pagliuso , M. F. Hundley , R. Movshovich , J. L. Sarrao , J. D. Thompson , Z. Fisk , p. Monthoux

The heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ displays an additional transition within its superconducting (SC) state, whose nature is characterized by high-precision studies of the isothermal field dependence of the entropy, derived from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-25 Y. Tokiwa , E. D. Bauer , P. Gegenwart

The thermal conductivity of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5 has been studied in a magnetic field rotating within the 2D planes. A clear fourfold symmetry of the thermal conductivity which is characteristic of a superconducting gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Izawa , H. Yamaguchi , Yuji Matsuda , H. Shishido , R. Settai , Y. Onuki

In the first part of this article, I briefly review early research activities concerning strongly correlated electron systems, beginning with the discovery of superconductivity and the first observation of a resistance minimum in nominally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-08 Frank Steglich

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

Electron tunneling into a system with strong interactions is known to exhibit an anomaly, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes continuously at low energy due to many-body interactions. Recent measurements have probed this anomaly in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-17 Debanjan Chowdhury , Brian Skinner , Patrick A. Lee

An effective field theory is derived for the normal metal-to-superconductor quantum phase transition at T=0. The critical behavior is determined exactly for all dimensions d>2. Although the critical exponents \beta and \nu do not exist, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Superfluidity and superconductivity have been studied widely since the last century in many different contexts ranging from nuclear matter to atomic quantum gases. The rigidity of these systems with respect to external perturbations results…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 A. Paris-Mandoki , J. Shearring , F. Mancarella , T. M. Fromhold , A. Trombettoni , P. Krüger

Quantum criticality has been invoked as being essential to the understanding of a wide range of exotic electronic behavior, including heavy Fermion and unconventional superconductivity, but conclusive evidence of quantum critical…

Recently, compressed H$_2$S has been shown to become superconducting at 203 K under a pressure of 155 GPa. One might expect fluctuations to dominate at such temperatures. Using the magnetisation critical current, we determine the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-18 Evgeny F. Talantsev , Wayne P. Crump , James G. Storey , Jeffery L. Tallon

The compound Ce2PdIn8 is a recently discovered novel member of the series Ce(n)TIn(3n+2), where T = d-electron transition metal, and n = 1 or 2. So far, only the phases with T = Co, Rh and Ir have been intensively studied for their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-20 D. Kaczorowski , D. Gnida , A. P. Pikul , V. H. Tran

Irradiation with 2.5 MeV electrons at doses up to 5.2 $\times$10$^{19}$ electrons/cm$^2$ was used to introduce point-like defects in single crystals of Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ with $x=$ 0.19 ($T_c=$ 14 K), $x=$ 0.26 ($T_c=$ 32 K) and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-10 K. Cho , M. Konczykowski , J. Murphy , H. Kim , M. A. Tanatar , W. E. Straszheim , B. Shen , H. H. Wen , R. Prozorov

In the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 (Tc=2.3K) the critical field is large, anisotropic and displays hysteresis. The magnitude of the critical-field anisotropy in the a-c plane can be as large as 70 kOe and depends on orientation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 T. P. Murphy , Donavan Hall , E. C. Palm , S. W. Tozer , C. Petrovic , Z. Fisk , R. G. Goodrich , P. G. Pagliuso , J. L. Sarrao , J. D. Thompson

The last 15 years have witnessed important progresses in our understanding of the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-$T_{c}$ cuprates. There is now strong evidence that the strange metal behavior is induced by the quantum critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-28 Tao Li

In many unconventional superconductors, the strange-metal regime is thought to emerge from quantum criticality, yet in cuprates this link is obscured by the enigmatic pseudogap. Superconducting infinite-layer nickelates provide a new arena…

We have observed the superfluid phase transition in a strongly interacting Fermi gas via high-precision measurements of the local compressibility, density and pressure down to near-zero entropy. Our data completely determine the universal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-23 Mark J. H. Ku , Ariel T. Sommer , Lawrence W. Cheuk , Martin W. Zwierlein

The pressure-temperature phase diagrams of the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn$_5$ and the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ have been studied under hydrostatic pressure by ac calorimetry and ac susceptibility measurements using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-16 G Knebel , M-A Méasson , B Salce , D Aoki , D Braithwaite , J P Brison , J Flouquet

The origin of the partial suppression of the electronic density states in the enigmatic pseudogap behavior, which is at the core of understanding high-$T_c$ superconductivity, has been hotly contested as either a hallmark of preformed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-22 Harim Jang , Vuong Thi Anh Hong , Jihyun Kim , Xin Lu , Tuson Park

The superconducting phase of doped 1T-TiSe$_2$ is a fruitful playground for exploring exotic quantum phenomena such as the anomalous metal state and spontaneously formed superconducting network. Here, we address these emergent states by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Jia-Yi Ji , Zongzheng Cao , Yi Hu , Haoyang Wu , Heng Wang , Yuying Zhu , Haiwen Liu , Lexian Yang , Qi-Kun Xue , Ding Zhang