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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 890-894Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2073
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/I031014/1, EP/E064264/1, EP/E063985/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E063985/1, EP/I031014/1, EP/E064264/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The emergence of superconductivity at high magnetic fields in URhGe is regarded as a paradigm for new state formation approaching a quantum critical point. Until now, a divergence of the quasiparticle mass at the metamagnetic transition was considered essential for superconductivity to survive at magnetic fields above 30 T. Here we report the observation of quantum oscillations in URhGe revealing a tiny pocket of heavy quasiparticles that shrinks continuously with increasing magnetic field, and finally disappears at a topological Fermi surface transition close to or at the metamagnetic field. The quasiparticle mass decreases and remains finite, implying that the Fermi velocity vanishes due to the collapse of the Fermi wavevector. This offers a novel explanation for the re-emergence of superconductivity at extreme magnetic fields and makes URhGe the first proven example of a material where magnetic field-tuning of the Fermi surface, rather than quantum criticality alone, governs quantum phase formation.
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