A review of UTe2 at high magnetic fields

  • Sylvia K. Lewin
  • , Corey E. Frank
  • , Sheng Ran
  • , Johnpierre Paglione
  • , Nicholas P. Butch

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Abstract

Uranium ditelluride (UTe2) 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 the unconventional superconductivity is a large and anisotropic upper critical field that exceeds the paramagnetic limit. This superconductivity survives to 35 T and is bounded by a discontinuous magnetic transition, which itself is also field-direction-dependent. A different, reentrant superconducting phase emerges only on the high-field side of the magnetic transition, in a range of angles between the crystallographic b and c axes. This review discusses the current state of knowledge of these high-field phases, the high-field behavior of the heavy fermion normal state, and other phases that are stabilized by applied pressure.

Original languageEnglish
Article number114501
JournalReports on Progress in Physics
Volume86
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2023

Keywords

  • UTe2
  • magnetic fields
  • review

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