837 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 reveals that the dimensionality of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates is extrinsically controlled by disorder, where low disorder yields a quasi-two-dimensional vortex state while increased disorder drives a crossover to a pure two-dimensional state due to the decoupling of NiO₂ planes.
This study demonstrates that superconducting LaPrNiO thin films exhibit a highly renormalized Fermi-liquid normal state characterized by resistivity and Kohler scaling, with a quasiparticle effective mass of approximately 10, thereby confirming their adherence to the universal scaling observed in strongly correlated superconductors.
This paper demonstrates that in situ deposited AlO passivation effectively prevents interfacial oxidation in epitaxial tantalum and aluminum films, enabling superconducting microwave resonators to maintain high internal quality factors and exceptional long-term stability over fourteen months of air exposure.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that altermagnet-based superconducting heterostructures can generate highly spin-polarized thermoelectric currents and achieve nearly perfect thermoelectric diode effects, offering significant potential for advanced spin-caloritronics applications.
This study evaluates the ability of six LLM-based systems to answer expert-level questions about high-temperature superconductivity using a curated database of 1,726 papers, finding that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems outperform closed models in providing comprehensive, well-supported answers while highlighting both the potential and current limitations of LLMs in specialized scientific domains.
This paper reports the discovery of ambient-pressure superconductivity with an onset temperature of approximately 63 K in compressively strained (La,Pr)₃Ni₂O₇ thin films, achieved via a giant-oxidative atomic-layer-by-layer epitaxy method that enhances interlayer coupling and links the high transition temperature to strange-metal behavior.
This paper reports the discovery of bulk superconductivity with a transition temperature of 0.7 K in the structurally pristine kagome metal YRu3B2, as confirmed by magnetization, resistivity, and heat-capacity measurements.
This paper develops a symmetry-adapted multipolar theory for noncentrosymmetric crystals in the strong spin-orbit coupling limit, revealing that multipolar interactions for reshape Fermi surfaces and create distinct total-angular-momentum textures that lead to nonmonotonic, enhanced Edelstein effects in heavy-element materials.
This paper theoretically explains the rapid growth and subsequent plateau of a specific sound wave frequency observed in nematic aerogel-filled superfluid 3He by modeling the aerogel's elastic properties and demonstrating how the hybridization of isotropic first sound, anisotropic second sound, fourth sound, and standard elastic modes leads to these distinct velocity behaviors near the polar phase transition.
This study utilizes scanning tunneling microscopy to demonstrate the coexistence of static, unidirectional stripe order and s-wave superconductivity in NaAlSi, revealing that the charge modulation imposes a periodic modulation on the superconducting coherence peak intensity.