848 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 first-principles study reveals that partial hydrogenation stabilizes most 2D M2X MXene monolayers and induces strong electron-phonon coupling leading to superconductivity in Mo-based systems, while identifying Zr2CH4 as a unique dynamically stable candidate hosting Dirac-like electronic states.
This first-principles study confirms the structural and dynamical stability of the Janus Ti2CSH monolayer and predicts it to be a phonon-mediated superconductor with a critical temperature of 22.6 K, highlighting its potential for quantum and nanoscale applications.
This paper proposes a phenomenological quantitative theory based on a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau framework to explain the field-induced superconductor-to-insulator transition in disordered 2D systems, where Cooper-pair fluctuations condense into localized mesoscopic puddles that eventually break down via quantum tunneling, successfully reproducing experimental resistance data and the single crossing point observed in amorphous Indium-Oxide thin films.
This paper presents an equilibrium quantum model demonstrating that coupling a superconducting condensate to a quantized electromagnetic field generates microwave dressed states with renormalized energy separations exceeding BCS predictions due to photon-Cooper pair entanglement and vacuum fluctuations, while simultaneously showing that the condensate suppresses electric field fluctuations through back-action.
This study constructs a phase diagram for multi-layer square-planar NdNiO nickelates, revealing superconductivity in compounds with = 4–8 and demonstrating that reducing dimensionality enhances cuprate-like characteristics while maintaining magnetic fluctuations and overlapping with the superconducting regime of infinite-layer nickelates.
This study demonstrates that thermal annealing of eutectic Hf-Nb-Sc-Ti-Zr high-entropy alloys significantly enhances their superconducting critical temperature to a maximum of 9.93 K and critical current density by expanding eutectic regions and inducing lattice strain, which are identified as the key mechanisms driving these improved properties.
This study challenges the specific "high-entropy effect" hypothesis regarding phonon lifetime in quinary alloys by revealing a universal negative correlation between the electron-phonon coupling constant and Debye temperature across bcc superconducting alloys of varying complexity, while also proposing Vickers microhardness as a rapid screening metric for estimating the Debye temperature.
This study utilizes scanning SQUID susceptometry to directly image and quantitatively model the long-range spatial structure of superconducting proximity effects in S-S'-S transition edge sensors, revealing how neighboring superconducting and normal metal contacts dramatically tune local transition temperatures and detector sensitivity.
This paper introduces Replica Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (R-STM), a novel technique that bridges atomic and mesoscopic length scales by utilizing replica signals to efficiently track atomic-scale electronic modulations over large areas, demonstrating that the pair density modulation in superconducting FeSe persists consistently up to hundreds of nanometers.
By combining low-temperature penetration depth and specific heat measurements with high upper critical field data, this study demonstrates that LiMoO exhibits a moderately-coupled, fully-gapped superconducting state with marked anisotropy, supporting the existence of a nodeless, possibly odd-parity spin-triplet order parameter emerging from a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid normal state.