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.
Using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, researchers detected correlated plasmons in the low-valence nickelate Pr4Ni3O8, revealing that these collective excitations are more heavily damped, slower, and temperature-softening compared to cuprates, thereby highlighting distinct charge-screening mechanisms and limiting direct analogies between the two material families.
This paper demonstrates that in symmetry-broken rhombohedral graphene, valley domain walls act as impenetrable barriers in the metallic regime and require intervalley mixing to support supercurrents in the superconducting phase, highlighting the critical role of intervalley hybridization in governing transport across these boundaries.
This review synthesizes theoretical progress on bilayer nickelate superconductors by highlighting key physical ingredients and models, with a specific focus on a strong correlation interlayer pairing mechanism where hybridized local singlets provide pairing energy to itinerant electrons to promote superconductivity.
This first-principles study reveals that rare-earth doping (Pr, Nd, Sm) in LaNiO induces chemical pressure that drives a tetragonal structural transition and enhances planar electronic hopping, providing microscopic insights into the emergence of superconductivity in these Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates.
This paper predicts that placing a material near a Mott transition on hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) can induce a substantial shift in its metal-insulator transition due to the strong zero-point fluctuations of the hyperbolic photon mode, although this effect is limited to only a few atomic monolayers due to rapid decay with distance.
This paper proposes that coupling electrons in a metal to proximate hyperbolic photon modes in hexagonal Boron Nitride can induce high-temperature superconductivity through a repulsive interaction that, due to its strong energy dependence, facilitates an Anderson-Morel-like pairing mechanism in energy space.
This paper proposes a phase-biased altermagnetic Josephson junction that utilizes superconducting phase and Néel-vector orientation to dynamically relocate Majorana corner modes, thereby enabling their unambiguous identification through control-correlated conductance switching that distinguishes them from trivial states.
This paper theoretically investigates the dynamical excitations of a two-dimensional spin-polarized attractive Hubbard model on optical lattices to identify a roton-based protocol for measuring the center-of-mass momentum of Cooper pairs during the transition from a BCS to an FFLO superfluid.
This study employs first-principles calculations to demonstrate that the 1T Janus monolayer ZrSeTe exhibits a weakened charge density wave instability and phonon-mediated two-gap superconductivity, both of which are tunable by electronic correlation and biaxial strain.
This paper investigates the symmetry of the critical current in multi-weak-link superconducting nanodevices, demonstrating that the symmetry generally holds when both bias current and magnetic field directions are reversed while also analyzing specific conditions under which this symmetry is violated.