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 reports the observation of "half-Bogoliubons" in underdoped cuprates, identifying them as intermediate excited states arising from local hole pairs whose entanglement and charge exchange establish the phase coherence necessary for superconductivity.
This paper experimentally demonstrates the viability of using hardware-aware, noise-calibrated variational quantum circuits on superconducting NISQ devices to model distributions relevant to credit risk analysis, offering a practical proof-of-concept for financial applications in the pre-fault-tolerant era.
This computational study demonstrates that hole doping in D-type C136 carbon schwarzite effectively suppresses its intrinsic competing magnetic instability while preserving a high-density-of-states metallic electronic structure, thereby establishing a viable pathway for future investigations into superconductivity in negative-curvature carbon networks.
This paper demonstrates that apparent double-transition temperatures observed in transport experiments on anisotropic two-dimensional superconductors can arise as artifacts of finite-size and finite-current effects in a single BKT transition, implying that robust splittings observed in real materials like KTaO interfaces must stem from physics beyond this minimal anisotropic baseline.
This study demonstrates that optimizing the buffer layer design, specifically using a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 bilayer, is essential for fabricating high-quality freestanding GdBCO thin films that retain their epitaxial structure and superconducting transition temperature of approximately 92 K after the lift-off process.
This paper theoretically investigates the anomalous and diode Josephson effects in planar two-dimensional junctions with inhomogeneous ferromagnetic barriers and interfacial Rashba spin-orbit coupling, identifying the symmetry-breaking conditions required for these phenomena and demonstrating through numerical calculations that tuning magnetic fields, spin-orbit coupling, and superconducting order parameter orientations can significantly enhance nonreciprocal transport.
This paper presents the design, manufacturing, and cryogenic testing of the world's first high-temperature superconducting Canted-Cosine-Theta sextupole demonstrator, developed under the FCCee-HTS4 project for use in the FCC-ee collider's short straight sections.
This paper investigates how competing mass orders exhibit color degeneracy and develop distinct local expectation values near the cores of vortices and skyrmions in two-dimensional fermionic systems with quadratic band touching, revealing rich symmetry-breaking patterns and novel pairing states such as charge- Kekulé pair density waves.
This paper demonstrates that incorporating higher-order Rashba spin-orbit coupling, particularly cubic terms, into bilayer superconductors enables the engineering of helical topological superconductors with multiple Majorana Kramers pairs and large mirror Chern numbers, thereby overcoming the traditional limitations of classification and the odd-Fermi-surface criterion.
Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on the high- quadruple-layer cuprate (Cu,C)BaCaCuO, this study reveals that superconductivity is driven primarily by underdoped inner CuO planes rather than a composite effect involving outer planes, demonstrating that high transition temperatures can be achieved even in apical-oxygen-free, deeply underdoped layers.