Exotic superconducting properties in the electron-hole-compensated heavy-fermion "Semimetal" URu2Si2.
We show that the charge and thermal transport measurements on ultraclean crystals of URu2Si2 reveal a number of unprecedented superconducting properties. The uniqueness is best highlighted by the peculiar field dependence of thermal conductivity including the first-order transition at Hc2 with a reduction of entropy flow. This is a consequence of multiband superconductivity with compensated electronic structure in the hidden order state of this system. We provide strong evidence for a new type of unconventional superconductivity with two distinct gaps having different nodal topology.
Kasahara
Y
Y
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Iwasawa
T
T
Shishido
H
H
Shibauchi
T
T
Behnia
K
K
Haga
Y
Y
Matsuda
T D
TD
Onuki
Y
Y
Sigrist
M
M
Matsuda
Y
Y