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High magnetic field measurements of uranium ditelluride

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Abstract

Few known materials exhibit unconventional superconductivity - far fewer possess phase diagrams containing multiple separate phases of unconventional superconductivity. This talk will review our recent high magnetic field measurements of the actinoid dichalcogenide UTe2, which exhibits numerous distinct superconductive states that persist to remarkably high field strengths. Recent optimization of the growth procedure of UTe2 single crystals has enabled us to map out the exotic phase landscape of this material in the clean limit, with notable similarities and differences between experiments conducted on samples of highly varying levels of crystalline disorder. Notably, in our pulsed field measurements to 80 T we have uncovered signatures of a quantum phase transition anchoring the high field phase landscape, which may shed light on the manifestation of extremely field-resilient superconductivity in this material.

Publication: 1. Z. Wu et. al., Enhanced triplet superconductivity in next-generation ultraclean UTe2, PNAS, 121, 37 (2024).<br>2. Z. Wu et. al., Magnetic signatures of multicomponent superconductivity in pressurized UTe2, arXiv:2403.06650, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2024).<br>3. Z. Wu et. al., Three-dimensional quantum criticality, submitted to Phys. Rev. X (2024)<br>4. Z. Wu et. al., Superconducting critical temperature elevated by intense magnetic fields, submitted to PNAS (2024).

Presenters

  • Zheyu Wu

    Univ of Cambridge

Authors

  • Zheyu Wu

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Theodore I Weinberger

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Alexander J Hickey

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Dmitry V Chichinadze

    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

  • Daniel Shaffer

    University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Andrej Cabala

    Charles University

  • Hanyi Chen

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Mengmeng Long

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Troy Brumm

    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

  • Zengwei Zhu

    Huazhong University of Science & Technology

  • Yurii Skourski

    HLD-EMFL HZDR

  • David E Graf

    Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, NHMFL

  • Vladimír Sechovsky

    Charles University

  • Michal Vališka

    Charles University

  • Gilbert G Lonzarich

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Friedrich M Grosche

    Univ of Cambridge

  • Alexander Geoffrey Eaton

    Univ of Cambridge, University of Cambridge