Emergent superconducting phases in unconventional pp-wave magnets: Topological superconductivity, Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces and superconducting diode effect

This theoretical study establishes unconventional pp-wave magnets as a versatile platform for realizing a rich landscape of emergent superconducting phases, including topological superconductivity with Majorana edge modes, Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces, and the superconducting diode effect, within a unified microscopic framework.

Amartya Pal, Paramita Dutta, Arijit Saha2026-03-04🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Enhancing the Energy Resolution in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: from dynamical Coulomb blockade to cavity quantum electrodynamics

By integrating local electromagnetic shielding and low-pass filtering directly at the cryogenic scan head, this study overcomes dynamical Coulomb blockade limitations to achieve a record energy resolution of 3.7 μeV, thereby revealing a novel coupling between atomic-scale Josephson currents and macroscopic cavity quantum electrodynamics modes.

Xianzhe Zeng, Janis Siebrecht, Haonan Huang + 4 more2026-03-04🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Discovery of an electrically-controllable superconducting memory effect

This study demonstrates that bulk single crystals of the triplet superconductor uranium ditelluride (UTe2_2) exhibit an intrinsic, electrically controllable memory effect where magnetic-field-tuned current pulses switch the material between metastable states of distinct critical currents, offering a promising pathway for ultralow-power superconducting memory in cryogenic computing.

Zheyu Wu, Hanyi Chen, Mengmeng Long + 13 more2026-03-04🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a resistive environment

Motivated by recent experiments, this paper derives general expressions for photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a dissipative environment, demonstrating that the heat current remains sensitive to Josephson coupling on the insulating side with opposite behaviors for series and parallel configurations, while also predicting heat rectification properties.

A. Levy Yeyati, D. Subero, J. Pekola + 1 more2026-03-04🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Mapping the positions of Two-Level-Systems on the surface of a superconducting transmon qubit

This paper presents a method to map the individual positions of surface two-level-systems (TLS) on a superconducting transmon qubit by utilizing local electric fields from on-chip gate electrodes, revealing that TLS density is significantly enhanced near the Josephson junction leads rather than the larger capacitor area, thereby guiding future qubit design and fabrication improvements.

Jürgen Lisenfeld, Alexander K. Händel, Etienne Daum + 3 more2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph

Exact Duality at Low Energy in a Josephson Tunnel Junction Coupled to a Transmission Line

This paper theoretically demonstrates an exact duality mapping between the low-energy charge-dependent bands of a charge-biased Josephson tunnel junction coupled to a finite transmission line and its flux-biased counterpart, revealing that both systems converge to a resistively shunted junction in the infinite-length limit and highlighting the system's intrinsic self-duality and critical behavior.

Luca Giacomelli, Michel H. Devoret, Cristiano Ciuti2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph