Colloquium: Unconventional fully gapped superconductivity in the heavy-fermion metal

M Smidman, O Stockert, EM Nica, Y Liu, H Yuan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The heavy-fermion metal CeCu 2 Si 2 was the first discovered unconventional, non-phonon-
mediated superconductor and, for a long time, was believed to exhibit single-band d-wave …

Magnetically driven superconductivity in CeCu2Si2

O Stockert, J Arndt, E Faulhaber, C Geibel, HS Jeevan… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
The origin of unconventional superconductivity, including high-temperature and heavy-
fermion superconductivity, is still a matter of controversy. Spin excitations instead of phonons …

Multiple superconducting phases in heavy-fermion metals

EM Nica, S Ran, L Jiao, Q Si - Frontiers in Electronic Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Symmetry breaking beyond a global U (1) phase is the key signature of unconventional
superconductors. As prototypical strongly correlated materials, heavy-fermion metals …

Multiband Superconductivity with Unexpected Deficiency of Nodal Quasiparticles in

S Kittaka, Y Aoki, Y Shimura, T Sakakibara, S Seiro… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Superconductivity in the heavy-fermion compound CeCu 2 Si 2 is a prototypical example of
Cooper pairs formed by strongly correlated electrons. For more than 30 years, it has been …

Itinerant Magnetic Excitations in Antiferromagnetic

SO Diallo, VP Antropov, TG Perring, C Broholm… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
Neutron scattering measurements of the magnetic excitations in single crystals of
antiferromagnetic CaFe 2 As 2 reveal steeply dispersive and well-defined spin waves up to …

Sign Reversal of Field-Angle Resolved Heat Capacity Oscillations in a Heavy Fermion Superconductor and Pairing Symmetry

K An, T Sakakibara, R Settai, Y Onuki, M Hiragi… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
To identify the superconducting gap symmetry in CeCoIn 5 (T c= 2.3 K), we measured the
angle-resolved specific heat (C ϕ) in a field rotated around the c axis down to a very low …

Revealing the Heavy Quasiparticles in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor

Z Wu, Y Fang, H Su, W Xie, P Li, Y Wu, Y Huang… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The superconducting order parameter of the first heavy-fermion superconductor CeCu 2 Si 2
is currently under debate. A key ingredient to understand its superconductivity and physical …

Multiple quantum phase transitions and superconductivity in Ce-based heavy fermions

ZF Weng, M Smidman, L Jiao, X Lu… - Reports on Progress in …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavy fermions have served as prototype examples of strongly-correlated electron systems.
The occurrence of unconventional superconductivity in close proximity to the electronic …

Feedback of Superconductivity on the Magnetic Excitation Spectrum of UTe2

S Raymond, W Knafo, G Knebel, K Kaneko… - Journal of the Physical …, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
We investigate the spin dynamics in the superconducting phase of UTe2 by triple-axis
inelastic neutron scattering on a single crystal. At the wave-vector, where the normal state …

Evidence for a Magnetically Driven Superconducting Phase of

M Kenzelmann, S Gerber, N Egetenmeyer… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We have studied the magnetic order inside the superconducting phase of CeCoIn 5 for fields
along the [1 0 0] crystallographic direction using neutron diffraction. We find a spin-density …