Exotic superconducting properties in the electron-hole-compensated heavy-fermion "Semimetal" URu2Si2

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Sep 14;99(11):116402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.116402. Epub 2007 Sep 14.

Abstract

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.