853 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 proposes and validates through tensor network simulations a microscopic mechanism for anyon superconductivity in fractional Chern insulators, demonstrating that repulsive interactions can drive a transition to a semion crystal state where the energetic preference for binding anyons into charge-2e pairs leads to robust superconductivity upon doping.
The paper demonstrates that superconductors with "delicate topology"—where the total Chern number is zero but subregions of the Brillouin zone possess quantized nontrivial Chern numbers—can achieve enhanced superfluid stiffness due to a geometric contribution that scales with the sum of these sub-region Chern numbers.
This paper demonstrates that superconductivity can emerge in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems near Gross-Neveu quantum criticality, specifically occurring only when strong interactions render the fermions "ill-defined" quasiparticles with large anomalous dimensions.
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.
The study of the Kondo-lattice material reveals a unique phenomenon where superconductivity emerges at pressures beyond a magnetic quantum critical point, rather than at the point of instability itself, suggesting a pairing mechanism distinct from traditional spin-fluctuations.
This study of the quasi-one-dimensional superconductor suggests that ferromagnetic correlations emerge below 10 K and are potentially suppressed by the onset of superconductivity at .
This paper proposes a unified quantum-critical origin for the simultaneous linear-in-temperature and linear-in-field Planckian scattering rates observed in cuprate superconductors, supported by experimental observations in LSCO and a theoretical model based on spin-driven charge fluctuations.
This paper demonstrates that NbN thin films grown via plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD) maintain exceptional spatial homogeneity of the superconducting order parameter even at high disorder levels, making them ideal candidates for high-kinetic-inductance cryoelectronic applications.
The paper proposes that the organization of vertically correlated disorder, rather than its magnitude, modulates interlayer tunneling amplitudes to explain various -axis electrodynamic anomalies and the fragile interlayer coherence observed in cuprate superconductors.
This paper establishes a formal mapping between the 1D Anderson lattice and a reservoir-enhanced superconducting model to demonstrate that the metallic reservoir mediates effective long-range interactions, which in turn explains the emergence of near-long-range magnetic order and renormalized RKKY coupling in Kondo systems.