Drastic change in magnetic anisotropy of UTe under pressure revealed by Te-NMR

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

Physical Review B, 105(14), p.L140502_1 - L140502_5, 2022/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L140502

Anisotropic response of spin susceptibility in the superconducting state of UTe probed with Te-NMR measurement

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

Physical Review B, 103(10), p.L100503_1 - L100503_5, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L100503

Te-NMR study on a single crystal of heavy fermion superconductor UTe

Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Hattori, Taisuke; Higa, Nonoka; Nakamine, Genki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 88(7), p.073701_1 - 073701_4, 2019/07

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.88.073701

We report Te-NMR studies on a newly discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe. Using a single crystal, we have measured the Te-NMR Knight shift and spin-lattice relaxation rate for fields along the three orthorhombic crystal axes. The data confirm a moderate Ising anisotropy for both the static () and dynamical susceptibilities () in the paramagnetic state above about 20 K. Around 20 K, however, we have observed a sudden loss of NMR spin-echo signal due to sudden enhancement of the NMR spin-spin relaxation rate , when the field is applied along the easy axis of magnetization (= axis). This behavior suggests the development of longitudinal magnetic fluctuations along the axis at very low frequencies below 20 K.

NMR study of magnetic spin fluctuations in UTe

Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Hattori, Taisuke; Higa, Nonoka*; Nakamine, Genki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; et al.

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Recently, Ran et al. reported evidence for superconductivity in the uranium-based heavy fermion material UTe, exhibiting the rather high transition temperature of 1.6 K. The ground state of UTe is paramagnetic, not ferromagnetic. However, the compound still exhibits a very large and anisotropic upper critical field H, exceeding the Pauli limit along the three principal axes, similar to the ferromagnetic superconductors, UCoGe and URhGe. Field-induced metamagnetic transition and re-entrant superconducting behaviour have been reported under strong magnetic fields around 35 T, when a magnetic field was applied along the orthorhombic hard-magnetization b-axis. In this study, we have performed Te-NMR measurements on a newly discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe. Our NMR data confirm a moderate Ising anisotropy for both the static (K) and dynamical susceptibilities (1/) in the paramagnetic state above about 20 K.