{"title":"Finite-size scaling theory of Rényi thermal entropy for second-order, first-order, and weakly first-order quantum phase transitions","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.1103/42kr-81xw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/42kr-81xw","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149089968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sahas Kamat,Jared Dans,Shanta Saha,Daniel F. Agterberg,Johnpierre Paglione,B. J. Ramshaw
{"title":"Vanishing Phase Stiffness and Fluctuation-Dominated Superconductivity in\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 UTe\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 2\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","authors":"Sahas Kamat,Jared Dans,Shanta Saha,Daniel F. Agterberg,Johnpierre Paglione,B. J. Ramshaw","doi":"10.1103/qjt6-hj2k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/qjt6-hj2k","url":null,"abstract":"Superconductivity in three dimensions is almost universally governed by Ginzburg-Landau mean-field theory, with critical fluctuations typically confined to within a few percent of the transition temperature ( T c ). We report that the heavy-fermion superconductor UTe 2 exhibits superconducting fluctuations that extend over a temperature range as wide as T c itself—the largest observed for any three-dimensional superconductor. Through ultrasound measurements of the elastic moduli and sound attenuation, we find that UTe 2 transitions from a mean-field-like state at ambient pressure to a fluctuation-dominated state at higher pressures. This regime is marked by elastic softening and an increase in sound attenuation that onsets well above T c , with the attenuation remaining anomalously high deep in the superconducting state. Our analysis suggests that these features stem from an extremely low superfluid phase stiffness. This results in a kinetic inductance as high as that of granular aluminum, but achieved in the clean limit. We propose a model where this exotic state is driven by dominant interband pairing mediated by ferromagnetic fluctuations, leading to “local” Cooper pairs with a coherence length of only a few lattice constants.","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149089971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}