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.
This study predicts that lithium-doped molecular hydrogen forms a stable cubic LiH12 phase under 250 GPa pressure, which achieves room-temperature superconductivity above 300 K through enhanced electron-phonon coupling driven by lithium-induced electron transfer and molecular network stabilization.
Using a symmetry-respecting microscopic Hamiltonian and density matrix renormalization group calculations, this study identifies Hund's coupling and interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling as the key mechanisms driving the spin stripe order in ambient-pressure LaNiO and enhancing interlayer pairing tendencies under high pressure.
This paper presents a novel microscopic theory explaining that low-temperature microwave dissipation in strongly disordered superconductors is dominated by bulk localized collective modes arising from spatial inhomogeneity, thereby resolving the limitations of standard Mattis-Bardeen theory and offering strategies to mitigate losses in superconducting quantum devices.
This paper refutes the arguments presented by Markos and Hlubina regarding the conventional theory's ability to describe Meissner effect dynamics, identifying flaws in their reasoning and proposing an experiment to further investigate the issue.
By employing a refined gating protocol to map a complete, symmetric superconducting dome in ionic liquid-gated MoS₂, this study reveals an anticorrelation between superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior in the normal state, where scattering rates reach the Planckian limit, thereby offering new insights into the emergence of superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides.
This study employs Molecular Dynamics simulations and Reverse Monte Carlo modeling to characterize the atomic structure of liquid bismuth at 573 K, revealing a local arrangement dominated by deformed triangles and squares that manifest as specific peaks in Pair Distribution and Plane Angle Distributions.
This paper proposes that the interplay between induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling and the helical magnetic order in EuRbFeAs generates a layer-rotating gauge field that stabilizes a uniaxial pair density wave, offering a theoretical explanation for recent experimental observations and predicting accompanying spontaneous loop currents.
This paper demonstrates that cavity vacuum fluctuations can drive a symmetry transition from singlet to triplet superconductivity in solids by renormalizing the electronic band structure and Fermi surface, thereby stabilizing unconventional topological superconducting phases absent in the bare material.
This paper theoretically predicts a new family of stable, non-magnetic 1:1 kagome MSn compounds (where M = Mo, Hf, Nb, Ta, W) that simultaneously exhibit intrinsic phonon-mediated superconductivity and nontrivial topological band structures driven by d-orbital features near the Fermi level.
This paper presents an analytical and numerical study demonstrating that in a cascaded source-probe geometry, the hierarchy of coherent side peaks in quantum wave mixing on a superconducting qubit becomes sensitive to the photon statistics of the source, effectively suppressing multiphoton absorption sidebands from antibunched light to create a distinct frequency-domain fingerprint.