Extreme Magnetic Field-Boosted Superconductivity

Published

December 1, 2019

Author(s)

Sheng NMN Ran, I Lin NMN Liu, Yun Suk Eo, Daniel J. Campbell, Paul M. Neves, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Shanta Ranjan Saha, Christoper Eckberg, Hyunsoo Kim, David Graf, Fedor Balakirev, John Singleton, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Nicholas Butch

Abstract

Applied magnetic fields underlie exotic quantum states, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect¹ and Bose-Einstein condensation of spin excitations². Superconductivity, on the other hand, is inherently antagonistic towards magnetic fields. Only in rare cases^3-5 can these effects be mitigated over limited fields, leading to reentrant superconductivity phases in the spin-triplet superconductor UTe₂⁶. Strikingly, we observe superconductivity in the highest magnetic field range identified for any reentrant superconductor, beyond 65 T. These extreme properties reflect a new kind of exotic superconductivity rooted in magnetic fluctuations⁷ and boosted by a quantum dimensional crossover⁸.

Citation

Nature Physics

Volume

14

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

reentrant superconductivity, pulsed field, spin-triplet

Citation

Ran, S. , Liu, I. , Eo, Y. , Campbell, D. , Neves, P. , Fuhrman, W. , Saha, S. , Eckberg, C. , Kim, H. , Graf, D. , Balakirev, F. , Singleton, J. , Paglione, J. and Butch, N. (2019), Extreme Magnetic Field-Boosted Superconductivity, Nature Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=928076 (Accessed December 15, 2024)