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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 presents simulations of a layered elastic line model mimicking vortex lattices in superconductors to demonstrate how finite-size effects and disorder disrupt hyperuniformity during cooling, thereby offering a theoretical framework for synthesizing hyperuniform materials under realistic experimental conditions.
This study demonstrates that InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulator-superconductor junctions exhibit robust edge state transport up to 2 T due to buried Dirac points, a feature that theoretically supports the formation of extended Majorana Kramers pairs essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
This paper proposes that the dynamical properties of twisted nodal superconductors, specifically the emergence of a soft Josephson plasmon mode and the generation of a second harmonic voltage under AC driving, provide distinct signatures and control mechanisms for characterizing and manipulating time-reversal symmetry breaking at their interfaces.
This study reports the discovery of bulk type-II BCS superconductivity with a transition temperature of approximately 6.2 K in chiral cubic W3Re2C, identifying it as a promising platform for exploring the interplay between chirality-induced Weyl points and superconductivity.
This study combines cavity performance measurements with material characterization to demonstrate that nitrogen is ten times more effective than oxygen at reducing surface resistance in niobium SRF cavities, while also revealing an additive effect when both impurities are present.
This paper theoretically investigates Andreev reflection and shot noise spectroscopy in junctions between -wave superconducting tips and topological superconductors by deriving analytical expressions and numerical simulations to establish guidelines for identifying topological superconductivity via STM/STS experiments.
Using numerical Monte Carlo simulations, this study demonstrates that in a strong magnetic field, the electroweak vacuum undergoes two crossover transitions into an intermediate vortex phase where a nearly massless boson excitation emerges as a Goldstone acoustic phonon mode associated with the vortex lattice, while Higgs and boson masses remain non-zero throughout.
This study demonstrates that controlled electrochemical intercalation of organic cations in bulk NbSe effectively decouples its layers to create a monolayer-like environment, resulting in a significantly enhanced charge-density-wave transition temperature and suppressed superconductivity that mirrors the phase diagram of exfoliated monolayers.
This paper reports the accidental discovery and characterization of a new hole-doped iron-based superconductor, Ba(FeTi)As, which exhibits superconductivity below 17.5 K and offers a novel platform for studying hole doping on the Fe site of 122-type iron-based superconductors.
This study demonstrates that the efficient r2scan density functional accurately captures electron-phonon coupling and superconducting properties in both complex transition-metal oxides and main-group compounds without requiring empirical corrections, thereby offering a robust pathway for first-principles modeling of these interactions.