Discovery of Magnetic Phase Transitions in Heavy-Fermion Superconductor

G Chajewski, D Kaczorowski - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report on the specific heat studies performed on a new generation of CeRh 2 As 2 single
crystals. Superior quality of the samples and dedicated experimental protocol allowed us to …

Coexistence of near- Flat Band and Van Hove Singularity in a Two-Phase Superconductor

X Chen, L Wang, J Ishizuka, R Zhang, K Nogaki… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Quantum many-body systems, particularly, the ones with large near-EF density states, are
well known for exhibiting rich phase diagrams as a result of enhanced electron correlations …

Effects of nucleation at a first-order transition between two superconducting phases: Application to

AL Szabó, MH Fischer, M Sigrist - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments observed a phase transition within the superconducting regime of the
heavy-fermion system CeRh 2 As 2 when subjected to ac-axis magnetic field. This phase …

Pressure-Tuned Quantum Criticality in the Locally Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor

M Pfeiffer, K Semeniuk, JF Landaeta, R Borth… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The unconventional superconductor CeRh 2 As 2 (critical temperature T c≈ 0.4 K) displays
an exceptionally rare magnetic-field-induced transition between two distinct …

Phase evolution of Ce-based heavy-fermion superconductors under compression: A combined first-principles and effective-model study

HT Ma, PF Tian, DL Guo, X Ming, XJ Zheng, Y Liu, H Li - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In many Ce-based superconductors, superconducting (SC) phases emerge or can be tuned
in proximity to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) quantum critical point (QCP), but so far the …

Field-induced superconductivity mediated by odd-parity multipole fluctuation

K Nogaki, Y Yanase - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Field-induced superconductivity has long presented a counterintuitive phenomenon and a
pivotal challenge in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism for …

Quasi-two-dimensional Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations in the Spin-triplet Superconductor Candidate CeRhAs

T Chen, H Siddiquee, Z Rehfuss, S Gao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The tetragonal heavy-fermion superconductor CeRh $ _2 $ As $ _2 $($ T_ {\rm c}= 0.3$ K)
exhibits an exceptionally high critical field of 14 T for $\textbf {B}\parallel\textbf {c} $. It …

Exposing the odd-parity superconductivity in CeRhAs with hydrostatic pressure

M Pfeiffer, K Semeniuk, JF Landaeta, M Nicklas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Odd-parity superconductivity is a rare and sought-for state of matter with a potential for
applications in topological quantum computing. Crystals with staggered locally non …

Superconducting meron phase in locally noncentrosymmetric superconductors

A Minamide, Y Yanase - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.13507, 2024 - arxiv.org
Theory of the superconducting parity transition is extended by incorporating the vortex
degree of freedom. We employ the bilayer Rashba model representing locally …

Strong superconducting pairing strength and pseudogap features in a putative multiphase heavy-fermion superconductor CeRh2As2 by soft point-contact …

Q Dong, T Shi, P Yang, X Liu, X Shi, L Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
CeRh2As2 is a newly discovered candidate of multiphase heavy-fermion superconductor
(Tc= 0.3 K) with intriguing physical properties. Here, we employ soft point-contact …