816 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 reveals that while hole doping via Ti substitution in CsVTiSb preserves conventional superconductivity across two distinct domes, it fundamentally alters charge correlations by rapidly suppressing competing and superstructures in the first dome and eliminating detectable charge order entirely in the second, highlighting key differences from Sn doping on Sb sites.
This study reveals that critical current oscillations in unstructured CsV3Sb5 flakes arise from an emergent, intrinsic network of Josephson junctions characterized by quantized Shapiro steps and filamentary supercurrent flow, offering new insights into the superconducting nature of the AV3Sb5 family.
This study utilizes a superconducting 3D microwave cavity to demonstrate that bulk microcrystalline Nb2O5 exhibits significant two-level system (TLS) losses consistent with theoretical models, whereas NbO2 shows no detectable TLS signatures, suggesting that engineering niobium cavities to favor an NbO2-dominated oxide layer could substantially reduce microwave losses in superconducting quantum devices.
This paper predicts that thermoelectric and current rectification effects in hybrid junctions of Ising superconductors and valley-polarized van der Waals materials can serve as experimentally accessible probes for detecting spin- and valley-polarized states.
Through high-precision inelastic neutron scattering and theoretical modeling, this study demonstrates that a Kondo-lattice framework incorporating fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) physics successfully explains the spin resonance and excitation continuum in CeCoIn5, thereby unifying spin fractionalization and unconventional d-wave superconductivity via common underlying gauge dynamics.
This paper presents a novel algorithm that reduces bias and optimizes execution time in Time Dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations of superconducting samples by finding stationary solutions for each step of the applied external field, thereby improving the design of devices with higher critical currents.
This study employs time-resolved optical spectroscopy to characterize the ultrafast dynamics of high-energy electronic excitations and phonon modes in bilayer La3Ni2O7, revealing distinct density-wave gaps, relaxation behaviors, and electron-phonon coupling mechanisms that provide critical insights into the material's complex gap structure and its link to high-temperature superconductivity.
This paper reports the systematic observation of a pronounced anomalous phonon thermal Hall effect in the altermagnet candidates MnTe and CrSb, establishing this phenomenon as an intrinsic feature of altermagnets and providing a sensitive probe for identifying this new class of quantum magnets.
This study investigates the electron-phonon mediated pairing symmetry in pressured LaNiO using two distinct coupling models, revealing that interlayer coupling favors an -wave state while intralayer coupling promotes an -wave symmetry.
This paper introduces an interpretable Gaussian process model called GP-, which utilizes electron-affinity difference distributions to predict superconducting transition temperatures, successfully validating its approach on nickelates and experimentally discovering a new superconductor, PtPbBi, with a critical temperature of approximately 3 K.