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 utilizes high-pressure synthesis and transport techniques to systematically investigate bilayer nickelates, revealing that controlled band width and hole doping can tune the superconducting phase and uncover multiple density-wave anomalies in the nonsuperconducting state.
This study demonstrates that (101)-oriented RuO₂ thin films, a candidate altermagnet, exhibit giant room-temperature third-order electrical transport responses driven by simultaneous T-odd and T-even quantum geometric quantities, providing a robust method to detect Néel order and a versatile platform for quantum spintronic devices.
This paper presents a full microscopic treatment of mesoscopic hybrid regions in Kitaev chains to derive analytical expressions for renormalized couplings and sweet-spot conditions, revealing that parity-crossings of spin-split Andreev bound states define optimal operating windows where Majorana zero modes are simultaneously well-localized and protected by a large excitation gap.
This study demonstrates that the resistive transition and vortex dynamics in MgB thin films are critically governed by microstructural defects and film-buffer interface properties, where single-crystal films with buffer-layer roughness exhibit superior current-carrying capacity and stronger pinning compared to textured films due to enhanced order parameter variations and lower thermal boundary resistance.
This paper demonstrates that strong electron-electron correlations in a Hubbard model with an odd number of electrons can spontaneously break time-reversal and mirror symmetries to induce a zero-field Josephson diode effect, establishing correlation as a distinct mechanism for nonreciprocal superconducting transport.
This study demonstrates that growing aluminum thin films at cryogenic temperatures induces structural disorder and smaller grain sizes, which enhance superconducting properties and kinetic inductance while altering optical characteristics, yet result in microwave resonators with quality factors dominated by two-level system loss similar to room-temperature films.
This paper investigates the electronic Raman scattering response in superconducting nickelates by analyzing various multiorbital models and pairing symmetries to identify characteristic fingerprints that can help determine the minimal model and pairing mechanism underlying high- superconductivity in these materials.
This paper proposes that vacuum fluctuations of a quantized magnetic flux from an LC resonator in a circuit QED environment can mediate long-range attractive interactions between angular momentum states in two-dimensional electron systems, leading to the formation of a tunable, high-temperature chiral pair-density-wave superconducting state.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that VO-based altermagnets, modeled via a six-orbital framework, robustly exhibit spin-polarized specular Andreev reflection at superconductor interfaces, offering a viable platform for generating energy-entangled electron pairs through a proposed multiterminal detection setup.
This paper proposes and analytically derives a mechanism for generating phonon angular momentum in mixed-parity and spin-orbit-coupled s-wave superconductors driven by a supercurrent, while also providing a physical interpretation of the effect.