Anomalous normal fluid response in a chiral superconductor UTe2

Seokjin Bae; Hyunsoo Kim; Yun Suk Eo; Sheng Ran; I-lin Liu; Wesley T. Fuhrman; Johnpierre Paglione; Nicholas P. Butch; Steven M. Anlage

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22906-6

Nature Communications (May 2021)

Anomalous normal fluid response in a chiral superconductor UTe2

Seokjin Bae,
Hyunsoo Kim,
Yun Suk Eo,
Sheng Ran,
I-lin Liu,
Wesley T. Fuhrman,
Johnpierre Paglione,
Nicholas P. Butch,
Steven M. Anlage

Affiliations

Seokjin Bae: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Hyunsoo Kim: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Yun Suk Eo: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Sheng Ran: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
I-lin Liu: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Wesley T. Fuhrman: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Johnpierre Paglione: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Nicholas P. Butch: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Steven M. Anlage: Maryland Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22906-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Chiral superconductors are predicted to realize Majorana normal fluid at its boundary, but remain elusive experimentally. Here, Bae et al. report anomalous surface normal fluid response in UTe2 single crystal which is further attributed to a chiral spin-triplet pairing state.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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