828 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 investigates re-entrant supercurrents in planar InAs-Al Josephson junctions under high in-plane magnetic fields, demonstrating that while some features align with topological or 0- transitions, they can also be fully explained by disorder-induced mode interference without invoking Zeeman splitting or topology.
This paper reports that the hydration-induced weight changes in La2-xBaxCuO4 and YBa2Cu3O6+delta at room temperature replicate the characteristic dome-shaped Tc(p) dependence and the "1/8 anomaly" typically observed at low temperatures, suggesting a novel room-temperature manifestation of high-temperature superconductor properties.
This paper predicts a novel "topological Abrikosov lattice" at the interface between a type-II superconductor and a Chern insulator, where a Chern-Simons-induced topological mass generates vortices with fractional charge that form unique four-vortex bound clusters.
Using unbiased functional renormalization group calculations on a spinless kagome lattice with nonlocal interactions, this study identifies a loop current order as the ground state driven by sublattice interference and strong second nearest-neighbor repulsion, which leads to a quantum anomalous Hall state and offers a theoretical explanation for time-reversal symmetry breaking in kagome materials.
This paper introduces an oxygen recycling protocol involving precursor deoxygenation and ozone-assisted annealing to stabilize and tune superconductivity in LaNiO films, revealing that oxygen addition serves as an effective analogue to hole doping via Sr substitution.
This paper reports high-field magneto-transport measurements up to 41 Tesla on quantum artificial high-Tc superlattices, revealing universal upward-concave upper critical field behavior across the superconducting dome that provides strong evidence for two-band superconductivity and demonstrates that atomic-scale geometric engineering controls both critical temperature and intrinsic pair size.
This paper demonstrates that in a nearly quarter-filled - lattice with an incipient flat band, spin fluctuations mediated by repulsive interactions drive a chiral $d+id'$-wave superconducting state with a Chern number of 8, while an extended Hubbard model with off-site attraction also yields distinct chiral $d+id'$ phases.
This paper elucidates the mechanism behind the high transition temperature in sulfur superhydride HS by demonstrating that its valence states are plane-wave-like, leading to a density-of-states peak near the Fermi level through the hybridization of specific plane waves driven by the adjacency of Jones' large zone to the Fermi surface.
This paper reports the direct imaging of the Meissner effect and local superfluid stiffness in a rhombohedral graphene superconductor, revealing that superconductivity emerges within a canted spin ferromagnetic phase and exhibits a temperature-dependent stiffness and zero-temperature scaling incompatible with standard BCS theory.
This paper demonstrates that altermagnet-superconductor heterostructures host Majorana bound states with a characteristic double-peak spatial profile localized at interfaces due to intrinsic anisotropic hopping, offering a promising route for creating controllable topological qubit networks without external magnetic fields.