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Anomalous Normal Fluid Response in a Chiral Superconductor UTe₂
Nature Communications
  • Seokjin Bae
  • Hyunsoo Kim, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Yun Suk Eo
  • Sheng Ran
  • I. lin Liu
  • Wesley T. Fuhrman
  • Johnpierre Paglione
  • Nicholas P. Butch
  • Steven M. Anlage
Abstract

Chiral superconductors have been proposed as one pathway to realize Majorana normal fluid at its boundary. However, the long-sought 2D and 3D chiral superconductors with edge and surface Majorana normal fluid are yet to be conclusively found. Here, we report evidence for a chiral spin-triplet pairing state of UTe2 with surface normal fluid response. The microwave surface impedance of the UTe2 crystal was measured and converted to complex conductivity, which is sensitive to both normal and superfluid responses. The anomalous residual normal fluid conductivity supports the presence of a significant normal fluid response. The superfluid conductivity follows the temperature behavior predicted for an axial spin-triplet state, which is further narrowed down to a chiral spin-triplet state with evidence of broken time-reversal symmetry. Further analysis excludes trivial origins for the observed normal fluid response. Our findings suggest that UTe2 can be a new platform to study exotic topological excitations in higher dimension.

Department(s)
Physics
Comments
National Science Foundation, Grant DMR-1410712
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2021 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Publication Date
01 Dec 2021
PubMed ID
33976162
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Citation Information
Seokjin Bae, Hyunsoo Kim, Yun Suk Eo, Sheng Ran, et al.. "Anomalous Normal Fluid Response in a Chiral Superconductor UTe₂" Nature Communications Vol. 12 Iss. 1 (2021) ISSN: 2041-1723
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hyunsoo-kim/6/