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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 investigates thermal and non-local electrical transport in four-terminal chiral topological Josephson junctions, establishing that robust half-quantized thermal conductance serves as a reliable probe for single chiral Majorana modes only under specific low-doping, intermediate-to-long junction conditions, while higher Chern numbers and finite-size effects generally disrupt quantization.
This paper establishes a general framework for quantizing light-matter theories with time-dependent constraints, demonstrating that the irrotational gauge is uniquely suited for such scenarios while showing that the Coulomb gauge is not generally irrotational and thus lacks a special status in time-dependent interactions.
This paper argues that the essential physics of overdoped cuprate high-temperature superconductors can be explained by a conventional Fermi-liquid normal state and a BCS mean-field d-wave superconducting state, attributing apparent inconsistencies to intrinsic disorder while proposing falsifiable predictions for ideal, disorder-free materials.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that altermagnetic order in a weakly interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate induces distinct anisotropic features in low-energy excitations and response functions, which vanish upon angular averaging, while also calculating the corresponding Lee-Huang-Yang correction to the ground-state energy.
This paper proposes Sondheimer magneto-oscillations as a robust, semiclassical alternative to conventional quantum oscillations for probing Fermi surface reconstruction in underdoped cuprates at elevated temperatures, demonstrating that their distinct spectral features and phase shifts can effectively differentiate between unreconstructed, spin-density-wave, and fractionalized Fermi liquid scenarios.
This study demonstrates that mechanically stable, bromine- and iodine-functionalized Mo2C MXene monolayers exhibit significantly enhanced and tunable phonon-mediated superconductivity, with transition temperatures reaching up to 21.7 K under electron doping, driven by strong electron-phonon coupling facilitated by halogen functionalization.
Using leading-order chiral perturbation theory, this paper maps the low-energy QCD phase diagram under magnetic fields with baryon and isospin chemical potentials, identifying various exotic phases including a chiral soliton lattice and a hybrid vortex phase that may be relevant to neutron stars at magnetic fields around G.
This paper presents a first-principles-based microscopic theory that calculates electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene for arbitrary twist angles without periodic supercells, revealing that the coupling is strongly enhanced near the magic angle due to a resonance between electronic bandwidth and phonon frequencies, thereby predicting superconductivity up to .
This study utilizes a three-orbital model to demonstrate how Fermi surface geometry, Van Hove singularities, and inter-orbital charge transfer in SrRuO critically influence optical Hall response and the polar Kerr effect, identifying specific pairing symmetries and Lifshitz transitions as key drivers of these phenomena.
This paper develops a new microscopic theory of orbital magnetization in chiral superconductors that unifies interband coherence effects with the intrinsic moments of the Cooper-pair condensate, providing a framework to explain how superconductivity modifies magnetization in systems like rhombohedral multilayer graphene.