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 paper demonstrates that a Bloch-like domain wall in a ferromagnetic racetrack enables precise control over Josephson coupling between superconducting electrodes, allowing for tunable critical currents, $0$-- transitions, and complex supercurrent patterns that establish domain walls as viable control elements for superconducting racetrack memory devices.
This study reports the ambient-pressure superconductivity of monolayer-bilayer and bilayer-trilayer Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate superstructures with transition temperatures exceeding 46 K, revealing that the emergence of superconductivity is intrinsically linked to specific Fermi surface topologies featuring Ni -derived hole-like bands.
This paper predicts that superconductor/antiferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures enable ultrastrong magnon-photon coupling at terahertz frequencies, where magnetic fields tune the interaction between one or both magnon modes and photons to create highly tunable magnon-polaritons with group velocities reaching several tenths of the speed of light.
This paper presents a theoretical framework and experimental verification demonstrating that 2D SQUID arrays can function as absolute magnetometers with ultra-high performance by utilizing "synthetic area spread" generated through bare superconducting loops, thereby eliminating the need for physically incommensurate loop areas.
This study demonstrates that thermally-activated epitaxy at temperatures exceeding 1000°C enables the reproducible growth of high-quality NbO films with superior structural and transport properties, thereby establishing a prototypical understanding of NbO's electrical behavior and highlighting the utility of high-temperature synthesis for refractory metal compounds.
This study utilizes scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy to correlate the structural polymorphs and oxygen stoichiometry of epitaxial LaNiO thin films with their superconducting properties, establishing a framework for stabilizing superconductivity in bilayer nickelates through precise ozone-driven structural and oxidation tuning.
First-principles calculations combined with anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory predict that the stable hexagonal BP3 monolayer is a strongly coupled, multiband two-dimensional superconductor with a transition temperature of 9.7 K, driven by significant electron-phonon interactions involving B-P bonding and pz orbitals.
This paper proposes a phenomenological model for cuprate superconductors based on nuclear relaxation data, identifying a "universal metal" state where the critical temperature is directly linked to the copper nuclear relaxation rate and explaining the doping-dependent anisotropy and pseudogap phenomena through a crossover into a strange metal regime.
This study reveals that mosaic crystals of the Dirac semimetal PdTe2 exhibit type-II superconductivity with a fully gapped s-wave order parameter, driven by disorder-induced flux line lattice formation, thereby establishing the material as a model system for exploring the interplay between non-trivial topology and tunable superconducting states.
This paper demonstrates that extended disorder potentials, such as chalcogen vacancies, significantly suppress pair-breaking rates in unconventional superconductors compared to standard point defects, thereby explaining the robustness of superconductivity in disordered materials like 4Hb-TaS despite high resistivity.