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金城 克樹*; 藤林 裕己*; 松村 拓輝*; 堀 文哉*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; 徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 仲村 愛*; et al.
Science Advances (Internet), 9(30), p.2736_1 - 2736_6, 2023/07
被引用回数:7 パーセンタイル:84.75(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Superconducting (SC) state has spin and orbital degrees of freedom, and spin-triplet superconductivity shows multiple SC phases because of the presence of these degrees of freedom. However, the observation of spin-direction rotation occurring inside the SC state (SC spin rotation) has hardly been reported. Uranium ditelluride, a recently found topological superconductor, exhibits various SC phases under pressure: SC state at ambient pressure (SC1), high-temperature SC state above 0.5 gigapascal (SC2), and low-temperature SC state above 0.5 gigapascal (SC3). We performed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and ac susceptibility measurements on a single-crystal uranium ditelluride. The b axis spin susceptibility remains unchanged in SC2, unlike in SC1, and decreases below the SC2-SC3 transition with spin modulation. These unique properties in SC3 arise from the coexistence of two SC order parameters. Our NMR results confirm spin-triplet superconductivity with SC spin parallel to b axis in SC2 and unveil the remaining of spin degrees of freedom in SC uranium ditelluride.
松村 拓輝*; 藤林 裕己*; 金城 克樹*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; 徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 仲村 愛*; 清水 悠晴*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 92(6), p.063701_1 - 063701_5, 2023/05
被引用回数:27 パーセンタイル:97.99(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Spin susceptibility in the superconducting (SC) state was measured in the higher-quality sample of uranium-based superconductor UTe by using Knight-shift measurements for a magnetic field
along all three crystalline axes. In the higher-quality sample, the SC transition temperature
is about 2.1 K, and the residual electronic term in the specific heat is almost zero. The NMR linewidth becomes narrower and is almost half of that in the previous sample with
1.6 K when
and
. Although the Knight-shift behavior was not so different from the previous results for
, and
, a large reduction in Knight shift along the
axis was observed, in contrast with the previous
-axis Knight shift result. We discuss the origin of the difference between the previous and present results, and the possible SC state derived from the present results.
藤林 裕己*; 金城 克樹*; 仲嶺 元輝*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; 徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 仲村 愛*; 清水 悠晴*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 92(5), p.053702_1 - 053702_5, 2023/05
被引用回数:5 パーセンタイル:77.22(Physics, Multidisciplinary)To investigate the static and dynamic magnetic properties on the uranium-based superconductor UTe, we measured the NMR Knight shift
and the nuclear spin lattice relaxation rate 1/
in
by
Te-NMR on a
Te-enriched single-crystal sample. 1/
in
is much smaller than 1/
in
and c, and magnetic fluctuations along each axis are derived from the 1/
measured in
parallel to all three crystalline axes. The magnetic fluctuations are almost identical at two Te sites and isotropic at high temperatures, but become anisotropic below 40 K, where heavy-fermion state is formed.
金城 克樹*; 藤林 裕己*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; 徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 仲村 愛*; 清水 悠晴*; 本間 佳哉*; et al.
Physical Review B, 107(6), p.L060502_1 - L060502_5, 2023/02
被引用回数:18 パーセンタイル:94.24(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)UTe is a recently discovered spin-triplet superconductor. One of the characteristic features of UTe
is a magnetic field (
)-boosted superconductivity above 16 T when H is applied exactly parallel to the
axis. To date, this superconducting (SC) state has not been thoroughly investigated, and the SC properties as well as the spin state of this high-
SC (HHSC) phase are not well understood. In this letter, we performed AC magnetic susceptibility and nuclear magnetic resonance measurements and found that, up to 24.8 T, the HHSC state has bulk nature and is quite sensitive to the
angle and that its SC character is different from that in the low-
SC (LHSC) state. The dominant spin component of the spin-triplet pair is along the
axis in the LHSC state but is changed in the HHSC state along the
axis. Our results indicate that
-induced multiple SC states originate from the remaining spin degrees of freedom.
金城 克樹*; 藤林 裕己*; 仲嶺 元輝*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; 徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 仲村 愛*; 清水 悠晴*; et al.
Physical Review B, 105(14), p.L140502_1 - L140502_5, 2022/04
被引用回数:7 パーセンタイル:61.70(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)To investigate the normal-state magnetic properties of UTe under pressure, we perform
Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements up to 2 GPa. Below 1.2 GPa, the b-axis NMR Knight shift shows a broad maximum at the so-called
on cooling, which is consistent with the magnetization measurement under pressure.
decreases with increasing pressure and disappears at the critical pressure
= 1.7 GPa, above which superconductivity is destroyed.
徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 芳賀 芳範; 常盤 欣文; Opletal, P.; 藤林 裕己*; 金城 克樹*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(2), p.023707_1 - 023707_5, 2022/02
被引用回数:22 パーセンタイル:92.14(Physics, Multidisciplinary)ウラン系の強磁性超伝導体で議論されてきた、「強磁性ゆらぎによるスピン三重項超伝導対の形成」および「強磁性ゆらぎを介した磁場による対形成引力の制御」というコンセプトがUTeにおいても成り立つことを期待させる。しかしその一方、
では静的な強磁性秩序は存在せず、低温の磁気状態がこれまでのウラン系強磁性超伝導体にどこまで近いのかという点については疑問を持たれていた。実際、最近の中性子散乱実験では、比較的高温側から反強磁性に近いq=0.57という波数を持った磁気ゆらぎの発達が示されている。本研究では
Te-NMR実験により低温で非常に遅いゆっくりとした揺らぎが発達する様子を捉えることに成功した。このことはこの系の低温における強い相関の発達を示唆している。
徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; Opletal, P.; 常盤 欣文; 芳賀 芳範; 藤林 裕己*; 金城 克樹*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; et al.
no journal, ,
重い電子系超伝導体UTeではスピン三重項の超伝導の実現が強く示唆されている。我々はこのUTe
において単結晶を用いたNMR研究を進めている。講演では常伝導相おけるナイトシフト、核磁気緩和率(T2)の温度依存性を報告し、この物質における常磁性相の特性について議論する。
徳永 陽; 酒井 宏典; 神戸 振作; 芳賀 芳範; 常盤 欣文; Opletal, P.; 藤林 裕己*; 金城 克樹*; 北川 俊作*; 石田 憲二*; et al.
no journal, ,
UTe is a novel uranium-based superconductor with a rather high transition temperature of
K. The compound attracted particular attention, because of the strong possibility of the spin-triplet Cooper pairing, which is a natural candidate for topological superconductivity in a bulk material. In this study, we performed
Te-NMR experiments on a
Te enriched single crystal of UTe
. The field and temperature dependences of the spin-spin relaxation rate of
in field applied along the
-axis revealed slow electronic dynamics developing in the paramagnetic state. The observed slow fluctuations are concerned with a successive growth of long-range electronic correlations below 30
40 K. We suggest that UTe
would be located on the paramagnetic side near an electronic phase boundary, where either the magnetic or Fermi-surface instability would be the origin of the characteristic fluctuations.