745 papers
Superconductivity is a fascinating state of matter where materials conduct electricity without any resistance, often defying our everyday expectations of how energy behaves. Researchers in this field explore the quantum mechanics behind these phenomena, seeking new materials that can operate at higher temperatures or under more practical conditions. This work holds the promise of revolutionizing everything from power grids to medical imaging devices, making the invisible world of quantum physics feel increasingly tangible and useful.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv database continuously to bring you the very latest preprints in Cond-Mat — Supr-Con as soon as they are posted. For every new submission, we generate both detailed technical summaries for experts and clear, plain-language explanations for curious readers, ensuring that cutting-edge discoveries are accessible to everyone regardless of their background. Below are the latest papers in this dynamic field, ready for you to explore.
By combining high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering with first-principles calculations, this study identifies a soft phonon mode at the L point along the M-L direction as the driving mechanism for charge-density-wave formation in the kagome metal CsVSb, thereby clarifying the central role of lattice dynamics in its intertwined phases with superconductivity.
By utilizing superconducting scanning tunneling microscopy with manganese-functionalized tips to avoid ferromagnetic electrodes, this study provides unambiguous experimental evidence that single enantiomers of heptahelicene act as effective spin polarizers, confirming the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect and ruling out electrostatic artifacts.
This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing quasiparticle interference in superconductors with chiral Bloch bands, demonstrating how the interplay between quantum geometry and the order parameter's phase enables the distinction of various pairing symmetries through spatial variations in the local spectral function.
This paper proposes a unified two-component theoretical framework to explain the distinct superconducting behaviors and normal states of bulk and thin-film bilayer nickelates, predicting that the interplay between interlayer superexchange coupling and doping determines the presence of superconducting domes, the nature of the normal state, and the potential for ambient-pressure superconductivity.
This study employs first-principles calculations to reveal that pristine and halogen-functionalized W2N monolayers exhibit a unified mechanism where electron-phonon coupling driven by softened low-frequency phonons induces competing charge density wave instabilities and superconductivity, with specific properties tunable via functionalization and strain.
First-principles calculations reveal that Janus Group-VI chalcogenide hydrides (1T-WSH and 1T-WSeH) undergo a triangular charge-density-wave (T-CDW) transition driven by strong momentum-dependent electron-phonon coupling rather than Fermi-surface nesting, which stabilizes the lattice by renormalizing the coupling strength while preserving robust phonon-mediated superconductivity.
This paper reports the successful synthesis of NbSc films via magnetron co-sputtering, which exhibit a maximum critical temperature of 6.35 K and a high critical current density of 2.5 MA/cm, demonstrating their potential for use in functional cryogenic electronic devices.
This paper demonstrates through numerical simulations and tensor network techniques that frustrated Josephson junction dice arrays at one-third flux quantum frustration exhibit a superconductor-insulator transition characterized by half-vortex deconfinement and the emergence of a topologically protected 4e superconducting phase mediated by Cooper quartets.
This paper derives and solves a dynamic-balance equation to quantify how thermal activation and cooling rates determine the freezing temperature and resulting residual vortex density in narrow superconducting strips cooled through their transition temperature in a small magnetic field.
This paper demonstrates that in the supersymmetric gapped phase of an interacting Majorana chain, supersymmetry persists as indicated by a diverging-then-decaying diagnostic, and the lowest excitations consist of soliton-antisoliton pairs that bind emergent localized Majorana modes to form nonlocal Dirac fermions distinguishing even and odd fermion parity.