Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to a Density Wave Phase in UTe2
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| author | Theuss, Florian Shragai, Avi Grissonnanche, Gael Peralta, Luciano Simarro, Gregorio de la Fuente Hayes, Ian M Saha, Shanta R Eo, Yun Suk Suarez, Alonso Salinas, Andrea Capa Pokharel, Ganesh Wilson, Stephen D. Butch, Nicholas P Paglione, Johnpierre Ramshaw, B. J. |
| author_facet | Theuss, Florian Shragai, Avi Grissonnanche, Gael Peralta, Luciano Simarro, Gregorio de la Fuente Hayes, Ian M Saha, Shanta R Eo, Yun Suk Suarez, Alonso Salinas, Andrea Capa Pokharel, Ganesh Wilson, Stephen D. Butch, Nicholas P Paglione, Johnpierre Ramshaw, B. J. |
| contents | Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc cuprates. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements provide evidence for a charge density wave (CDW) that coexists with superconductivity in the heavy Fermion metal UTe2. This CDW persists up to at least 7.5 K and, as a CDW breaks the translational symmetry of the lattice, its disappearance is necessarily accompanied by thermodynamic phase transition. Here, we report high-precision thermodynamic measurements of the elastic moduli of UTe2. We observe no signature of a phase transition in the elastic moduli down to a level of 1 part in 10^7, strongly implying the absence of bulk CDW order in UTe2. We suggest that the CDW and associated pair density wave (PDW) observed by STM may be confined to the surface of UTe2. |
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| spellingShingle | Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to a Density Wave Phase in UTe2 Theuss, Florian Shragai, Avi Grissonnanche, Gael Peralta, Luciano Simarro, Gregorio de la Fuente Hayes, Ian M Saha, Shanta R Eo, Yun Suk Suarez, Alonso Salinas, Andrea Capa Pokharel, Ganesh Wilson, Stephen D. Butch, Nicholas P Paglione, Johnpierre Ramshaw, B. J. Strongly Correlated Electrons Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc cuprates. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements provide evidence for a charge density wave (CDW) that coexists with superconductivity in the heavy Fermion metal UTe2. This CDW persists up to at least 7.5 K and, as a CDW breaks the translational symmetry of the lattice, its disappearance is necessarily accompanied by thermodynamic phase transition. Here, we report high-precision thermodynamic measurements of the elastic moduli of UTe2. We observe no signature of a phase transition in the elastic moduli down to a level of 1 part in 10^7, strongly implying the absence of bulk CDW order in UTe2. We suggest that the CDW and associated pair density wave (PDW) observed by STM may be confined to the surface of UTe2. |
| title | Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to a Density Wave Phase in UTe2 |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14714 |