Large reduction in the -axis knight shift on UTe with = 2.1 K

Matsumura, Hiroki*; Fujibayashi, Hiroki*; Kinjo, Katsuki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 92(6), p.063701_1 - 063701_5, 2023/05

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.92.063701

Change of superconducting character in UTe induced by magnetic field

Kinjo, Katsuki*; Fujibayashi, Hiroki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; Homma, Yoshiya*; et al.

Physical Review B, 107(6), p.L060502_1 - L060502_5, 2023/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L060502

Superconducting order parameter in UTe determined by knight shift measurement

Fujibayashi, Hiroki*; Nakamine, Genki*; Kinjo, Katsuki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(4), p.043705_1 - 043705_4, 2022/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.91.043705

This study investigates the spin susceptibility in U-based superconductor UTe in the superconducting (SC) state by using Knight shift measurements for a magnetic field along the axis, which is the magnetic easy axis of UTe. Although a tiny anomaly ascribed to the SC diamagnetic effect was observed just below the SC transition temperature , the -axis Knight shift in the SC state shows no significant decrease, following the extrapolation from the normal-state temperature dependence. This indicates that the spin susceptibility is nearly unchanged below . Considering the previous Knight shift results for and , the dominant SC state is determined to be in the spin-triplet pairing, which is consistent with the spin anisotropy in the normal state. The present result shows that UTe is a spin-triplet superconductor with spin degrees of freedom.

Electronic fluctuations in the normal state of UTe

Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Opletal, P.; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Haga, Yoshinori; Fujibayashi, Hiroki*; Kinjo, Katsuki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; et al.

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We report the results of Te NMR measurements in field () applied along the easy magnetization axis (the -axis). The experiments revealed slow electronic dynamics developing in the paramagnetic state of UTe. The observed slow fluctuations are concerned with a successive growth of long-range electronic correlations below 3040 K, where the spin susceptibility along the hard magnetization axis (the -axis) shows a broad maximum. The experiments also imply that tiny amounts of disorder or defects locally disturb the long-range electronic correlations and develop an inhomogeneous electronic state at low temperatures, leading to a low temperature upturn observed in the bulk-susceptibility in .