Chiral Effects on the Vortex Lattice in UPt3

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The heavy fermion material UPt3 may justly be considered a paradigm for unconventional superconductivity and it remains the best established case of a a bulk, odd-parity, spin triplet superconductor. However, key questions remain unanswered concerning the order parameter of UPt3 in the three different superconducting phases.Here we focus on the vortex lattice (VL) in the so-called B-phase (low-temperature/low-field) and how this will be affected by a possible broken time-reversal symmetry. Our preliminary SANS measurements show a clear indication of a chiral effect on the VL in the B-phase that depends sensitively on the field/temperature history. We propose to continue these measurements and definitively establish the precise connections between the VL structure and a chiral state.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-402
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-402
Provenance
Creator Dewhurst, Charles; White, Jonathan; Avers, Keenan; Eskildsen, Morten Ring; Kuhn, Stephen; Gannon, William; Halperin, William
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2016
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields