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Journal Article
Magnetic-field-sensitive charge density waves in the superconductor UTe2
2023
Overview
The intense interest in triplet superconductivity partly stems from theoretical predictions of exotic excitations such as non-Abelian Majorana modes, chiral supercurrents and half-quantum vortices
1
–
4
. However, fundamentally new and unexpected states may emerge when triplet superconductivity appears in a strongly correlated system. Here we use scanning tunnelling microscopy to reveal an unusual charge-density-wave (CDW) order in the heavy-fermion triplet superconductor UTe
2
(refs.
5
–
8
). Our high-resolution maps reveal a multi-component incommensurate CDW whose intensity gets weaker with increasing field, with the CDW eventually disappearing at the superconducting critical field
H
c2
. To understand the phenomenology of this unusual CDW, we construct a Ginzburg–Landau theory for a uniform triplet superconductor coexisting with three triplet pair-density-wave states. This theory gives rise to daughter CDWs that would be sensitive to magnetic field owing to their origin in a pair-density-wave state and provides a possible explanation for our data. Our discovery of a CDW state that is sensitive to magnetic fields and strongly intertwined with superconductivity provides important information for understanding the order parameters of UTe
2
.
A study using scanning tunnelling microscopy reveals a charge-density-wave state that is sensitive to magnetic fields and strongly intertwined with superconductivity in the heavy-fermion triplet superconductor UTe
2
.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
