849 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 paper establishes a compact quaternionic field theory framework for spinful superconductivity that unifies singlet and triplet pairing into a single field, enabling the analytical derivation and numerical verification of charge-4e signatures, including vestigial order criteria, fractional flux vortices, and dominant second-harmonic Josephson effects.
This paper investigates how shunt resistors control the dynamics and onset of resistive phases, such as hot-spot and phase-slippage events, in superconducting wires operating below their critical current by influencing dynamic current redistribution and local heating properties.
This study proposes a new paradigm for achieving high-temperature superconductivity at low pressures in metal hydrides by mimicking the bonding characteristics of high-pressure H3S, exemplified by the Li3CuH4 compound which combines a covalent Cu-H framework for enhanced electron-phonon coupling with an ionic Li3H lattice for structural stability.
This paper proposes a field-theoretical framework analogous to the BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold atoms to explain the hadron-quark crossover in dense matter, demonstrating that a tripling fluctuation effect can simultaneously account for the observed peak in the speed of sound and the baryon momentum-shell structure characteristic of quarkyonic matter.
This paper demonstrates that accurately determining the upper critical field in few-layer Ising superconductors requires accounting for all Fermi surface pockets and proposes that the field's scaling with a displacement field can be used to identify the spin-symmetry of the superconducting order, even in the presence of mixed-parity components.
This paper introduces a minimal, scalable shunted superconducting wirelet neuron that exhibits tunable spiking dynamics and demonstrates accurate pattern recognition capabilities, establishing a promising energy-efficient building block for cryogenic neuromorphic computing.
This study demonstrates that precise stoichiometric control to reduce interstitial iron impurities in strained FeTe thin films reversibly suppresses long-range antiferromagnetic order and induces intrinsic superconductivity at approximately 10 K without relying on complex oxygen incorporation or interfacial effects.
This paper reveals that CsVTeO Josephson junctions exhibit a layer-parity-dependent "altermagnetic even-odd effect," where spin-polarized supercurrents and transport characteristics oscillate between odd and even layers due to the material's hidden -wave altermagnetism.
Using dynamical mean-field theory, this study reveals that a single-layer Hubbard model coupled to superconductors exhibits a first-order phase transition between a Mott-like insulating state and a proximitized superconducting state, where phase bias and junction transparency can tune the system between conducting and insulating regimes.
This paper presents a novel radio-frequency gasket featuring a patterned Lenz lens on a composite Ta-based substrate that enables contactless, high-pressure superconductivity measurements in diamond anvil cells, overcoming the limitations of previous methods that required fabricating sensors directly on the diamond anvils.