Ran Sheng, Liu I-Lin, Eo Yun Suk, Campbell Daniel J, Neves Paul M, Fuhrman Wesley T, Saha Shanta R, Eckberg Christopher, Kim Hyunsoo, Graf David, Balakirev Fedor, Singleton John, Paglione Johnpierre, Butch Nicholas P
Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Nat Phys. 2019;15(12). doi: 10.1038/s41567-019-0670-x.
Applied magnetic fields underlie exotic quantum states, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect and Bose-Einstein condensation of spin excitations. Superconductivity, however, is inherently antagonistic towards magnetic fields. Only in rare cases can these effects be mitigated over limited fields, leading to re-entrant superconductivity. Here, we report the coexistence of multiple high-field re-entrant superconducting phases in the spin-triplet superconductor UTe (ref. ). We observe superconductivity in the highest magnetic field range identified for any re-entrant superconductor, beyond 65 T. Although the stability of superconductivity in these high magnetic fields challenges current theoretical models, these extreme properties seem to reflect a new kind of exotic superconductivity rooted in magnetic fluctuations and boosted by a quantum dimensional crossover.
外加磁场是奇异量子态的基础,例如分数量子霍尔效应和自旋激发的玻色 - 爱因斯坦凝聚。然而,超导性本质上与磁场相互对抗。只有在极少数情况下,这些效应在有限磁场中才能得到缓解,从而导致再入超导性。在此,我们报道了自旋三重态超导体UTe₂中多个高场再入超导相的共存。我们在任何再入超导体所确定的最高磁场范围内,即超过65 T的磁场中观测到了超导性。尽管这些高磁场中超导性的稳定性对当前理论模型提出了挑战,但这些极端特性似乎反映了一种源于磁涨落并由量子维度交叉增强的新型奇异超导性。