Superconducting spin reorientation in spin-triplet multiple superconducting phases of UTe₂

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Superconducting spin reorientation in spin-triplet multiple superconducting

phases of UTe2

Katsuki Kinjo, Hiroki Fujibayashi, Hiroki Matsumura, Fumiya Hori, Shunsaku Kitagawa, Kenji Ishida, Yo Tokunaga, Hironori

Sakai, Shinsaku Kambe, Ai Nakamura, Yusei Shimizu, Yoshiya Homma, Dexin Li, Fuminori Honda, and Dai Aoki

Sci. Adv., 9 (30), eadg2736.

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