Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Surfaces and Unitary Spin-Triplet Pairing in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor UTe2

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• DOI number:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.217002
• Journal:Physical Review Letters
• Abstract:We report first-principles and strongly correlated calculations of the newly discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe2. Our analyses reveal three key aspects of its magnetic, electronic, and superconducting properties that include (i) a two-leg ladder-type structure with strong magnetic frustrations, which might explain the absence of long-range orders and the observed magnetic and transport anisotropy, (ii) quasi-two-dimensional Fermi surfaces composed of two separate electron and hole cylinders with similar nesting properties as in UGe2, which may potentially promote magnetic fluctuations and help to enhance the spin-triplet pairing, and (iii) a unitary spin-triplet pairing state of strong spin-orbit coupling at zero field, with point nodes presumably on the heavier hole Fermi surface along the ���� direction, in contrast to the previous belief of nonunitary pairing. Our proposed scenario is in excellent agreement with latest thermal conductivity measurement and provides a basis for understanding the peculiar magnetic and superconducting properties of UTe2.
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• Date of Publication:2019-01-01
• Links to published journals:https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.217002