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High Field Superconducting Phases of Ultra Clean Single Crystal UTe 2

Dai Aoki
Nils Marquardt
Gerard Lapertot
Jacques Flouquet
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We report the magnetoresistance of high-quality single crystals of UTe 2 with T c = 2.1 K in high magnetic fields up to 36 T, with the field direction between the b and c-axes. From the angular dependence of the upper critical field H c2 , we found that the field-reentrant superconducting phase near H ∥ b-axis extends up to a field angle (θ ∼ 24 deg) from the b to c-axis, where another field-reentrant superconducting phase begins to appear above the metamagnetic transition field, H m . Our results suggest that the field-reentrant superconductivity below H m near the b-axis is closely related to the superconductivity above H m when the field is tilted toward the c-axis. Superconductivity appears to be robust when the field direction is maintained perpendicular to the magnetization easy axis, implying that fluctuations boosting superconductivity may persist. At first glance, these findings resemble the field-reentrant (reinforced) superconductivity observed in ferromagnetic superconductors URhGe and UCoGe, where Ising-type ferromagnetic fluctuations play a crucial role. However, in UTe 2 , the fluctuations are more complex. The angular dependence of the upper critical field H c2 contrasts with that of the initial slope of H c2 near T c , revealing the anisotropic field response of fluctuations. Thanks to the high-quality samples, quantum oscillations were detected for field directions close to the c-axis using magnetoresistance (Shubnikov-de Haas effect) and torque (de Haas-van Alphen effect) measurements. The angular dependence of frequencies is in good agreement with those observed previously using the field-modulation technique, confirming quasi-two dimensional Fermi surfaces.

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hal-04830852 , version 1 (11-12-2024)

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Dai Aoki, Ilya Sheikin, Nils Marquardt, Gerard Lapertot, Jacques Flouquet, et al.. High Field Superconducting Phases of Ultra Clean Single Crystal UTe 2. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2024, 93 (12), ⟨10.7566/JPSJ.93.123702⟩. ⟨hal-04830852⟩
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