Novel Material Shows Unconventional Superconductivity with Magnetic Order Under Pressure

2021-3-3

JPS Hot Topics 1, 006

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSHT.1.006

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Multiple Superconducting Phases and Unusual Enhancement of the Upper Critical Field in UTe₂
(JPSJ Editors' Choice)

Dai Aoki, Fuminori Honda, Georg Knebel, Daniel Braithwaite, Ai Nakamura, DeXin Li, Yoshiya Homma, Yusei Shimizu, Yoshiki J. Sato, Jean-Pascal Brison, and Jacques Flouquet
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 89, 053705 (2020) .

Multiple superconductivity wad found in the novel spin-triplet superconductor UTe₂, which is called “Silicon of Quantum Computers”. A complicated spin-triplet state is realized as a consequence of spin degree of freedom. This result will lead to a new state of topological superconductivity.