Exotic Superconducting Properties in the Electron-Hole-Compensated Heavy-Fermion "Semimetal"URu2Si2

Y. Kasahara, T. Iwasawa, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, K. Behnia, Y. Haga, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Onuki, M. Sigrist, Y. Matsuda
2007 Physical Review Letters  
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 multi-band superconductivity with compensated electronic structure in the hidden order state of this system. We provide strong evidence for a new type
more » ... of unconventional superconductivity with two distinct gaps having different nodal topology.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.116402 pmid:17930455 fatcat:hoeu42twqbcnhj5243gb72mufu