Communications Physics (Aug 2024)

Correlated normal state fermiology and topological superconductivity in UTe2

  • Hong Chul Choi,
  • Seung Hun Lee,
  • Bohm-Jung Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01708-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Abstract UTe2 is a promising candidate for spin-triplet superconductors, in which a paramagnetic normal state becomes superconducting due to spin fluctuations. Here, we theoretically show that electron correlation induces a dramatic change in the normal state fermiology with an emergent correlated Fermi surface (FS) driven by Kondo resonance at low temperatures. This emergent correlated FS can account for various unconventional superconducting properties in a unified way. In particular, the geometry of the correlated FS can naturally host topological superconductivity in the presence of odd-parity pairings, which become the leading instability due to strong ferromagnetic spin fluctuations. Moreover, two pairs of odd-parity channels appear as nearly degenerate solutions which may lead to time-reversal breaking multicomponent superconductivity. The resulting time-reversal-breaking superconducting state is a Weyl superconductor in which Weyl points migrate along the correlated FS as the relative magnitude of nearly degenerate pairing solutions varies.