Nonlinear electric transport in high-field superconductor UTe2
MPSD Exchange
- Date: Dec 9, 2025
- Time: 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Ling Zhang
- PhD Student, Microstructured Quantum Matter Group
- Location: MPSD Bldg. 900
- Room: Seminar Room 136
UTe2 displays a tantalizing phase diagram under high magnetic fields, featuring multipleunconventional superconducting and magnetic phases with distinct order parameters. In thisMPSD exchange seminar, I will present our recent experimental results on probing nonlinearelectronic transport in these non-trivial states.First, I will discuss the field-reinforced superconducting state and its strongly anisotropic vortexresponse with respect to both current and magnetic-field orientation. These results reveal anunexpected quasi-2D superconducting state in a non-layered material. Next, I will provideevidence for a first-order transition modulated by high current densities in the high-field region,emphasizing its direct connection to a hidden order within the field-polarized phase.
References
[1] Lewin, S. K., Frank, C. E., Ran, S., Paglione, J. & Butch, N. P. Reports on Progress in Physics
86, 114501 (2023).
[2] Zhang, L. et al. Nat. Commun. 16, 10308 (2025).
[3] Zhang, L. et al., in preparation.