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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 paper demonstrates that a chiral nanotube-based Josephson junction can achieve perfect supercurrent diode efficiency through a non-reciprocal persistent current protected by fluxoid quantization, even without spin-orbit interactions or higher-order tunneling processes.
This paper uses the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau model and a path-integral framework to demonstrate that noise with a finite correlation time can enhance the fluctuation-driven transport response in a superconductor above its critical temperature, an effect that varies depending on the system's dimensionality.
This paper maps the phase diagram of compressively strained thin films, revealing a superconducting dome characterized by an electron-hole crossover and an anomalous Hall coefficient sign change that suggests Fermi surface reconstruction.
This paper proposes a generalized time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model demonstrating that microwave radiation can induce p-wave and d-wave components in an originally pure s-wave centrosymmetric superconductor by utilizing gradient coupling terms and the vector potential.
By analyzing the optical conductivity of thin films, this study demonstrates that infinite-layer nickelates exhibit a multiband electronic structure characterized by strongly correlated hole bands and electron bands, both of which contribute to the superconducting condensate.
This paper proposes using the relatively overlooked Mathieu-Simon (MS) model, which emphasizes surface pinning mechanisms, to better analyze and predict the critical current behavior of YBaCuO superconducting tapes across various physical conditions.
In a clean Josephson-junction chain operating in the charge-quantized regime, heat propagates logarithmically slowly rather than diffusively, a non-ergodic behavior characteristic of localized systems that suggests strong robustness against ergodic inclusions.
This study reports the layer-by-layer growth of superconducting LaBi thin films and attributes their enhanced metallic behavior and improved growth dynamics compared to LaSb to significant relativistic effects on the electronic band structure.
This paper uses quantitative magneto-optical imaging to characterize magnetic-flux distribution and critical current density in niobium thin films, demonstrating that the Nb/Si interfacial layer significantly impacts superconducting homogeneity and contributes to decoherence in transmon qubits.
This paper proposes a theoretical method using angle-resolved THz pump spectroscopy to identify the superconducting pairing symmetry of boron-doped Sn/Si(111) by analyzing the polarization dependence of photo-induced currents within a model.