PAMS Seminar: "Spin-triplet Superconducting State in the Nearly Ferromagnetic Compound UTe2" by Dr. Sheng Ran

Dr. Sheng Ran
Washington University in St. Louis

Abstract:

AOur recent discovery of the novel spin-triplet superconductivity in UTe2 has inspired a lot of interests in the community. Superconducting state of UTe2 closely resembles that of ferromagnetic superconductors, but the normal state is paramagnetic and shows no indication of magnetic ordering. UTe2 exhibits an extremely large, anisotropic upper critical field Hc2, temperature independent NMR Knight shift in the superconducting state, and a large residual normal electronic density of states. All these results strongly indicate that the superconductivity in UTe2 is carried by spin-triplet pairs. Even more striking, superconductivity reenters in the magnetic field of 45 tesla and persists up to 65 tesla, which is the upper limit of magnetic field in our current study. These extreme properties reflect a new kind of exotic superconductivity rooted in magnetic fluctuations and quantum dimensionality. Application of pressure reveals a two-fold enhancement of this unusual superconductivity, which is closely related to the suppression of Kondo coherence. In this talk, I will review our recent results on UTe2.

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