Generic thermodynamics of condensates with extremely small superfluid density ---Application to UTe and hidden second phase transition---
Abstract: Motivated by recent experimental findings on UTe via NMR and specific heat experiments, we theoretically explore the thermodynamic signatures of condensates with small superfluid density and characterize their physical properties. We identify the hidden superconducting phase composed of spin-up Cooper pairs at lower temperature () and field () under ambient pressure of UTe and show that reappears at higher for all three principal field directions, , , and -axis. The phase transition lines from the phase with spin down pairs to the phase in the - plane are all horizontal in common, implying a universal physical origin due to the originating from the magnetic-energy gain of the spin-up pairing state with increasing magnetic field. This multiple-phase diagram is extended to these under pressure (), resulting in a simple picture based on non-unitary spin-triplet pairing symmetry , which enables us to consistently capture the evolution of the superconducting phases throughout the entire -- phase space.
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