Theory of the low- and high-field superconducting phases of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mi>UTe</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math>

Abstract

Recent nuclear magnetic resonance and calorimetric experiments have observed that ${\mathrm{UTe}}_{2}$ exhibits a transition between two distinct superconducting phases as a function of magnetic field strength for a field applied along the crystalline $b$ axis. To determine the nature of these phases, we employ a microscopic two-band minimal Hamiltonian with the essential crystal symmetries and structural details. We also adopt anisotropic ferromagnetic exchange terms. We study the resulting pairing symmetries and properties of these low- and high-field phases in mean-field theory.

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