Superconductivity onset above 60 K in ambient-pressure nickelate films

This paper reports the discovery of ambient-pressure superconductivity with an onset temperature of approximately 63 K in compressively strained (La,Pr)₃Ni₂O₇ thin films, achieved via a giant-oxidative atomic-layer-by-layer epitaxy method that enhances interlayer coupling and links the high transition temperature to strange-metal behavior.

Guangdi Zhou, Heng Wang, Haoliang Huang, Yaqi Chen, Fei Peng, Wei Lv, Zihao Nie, Wei Wang, Qi-Kun Xue, Zhuoyu ChenThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Ground states of the Ising model at fixed magnetization on a triangular ladder with three-spin interactions

This paper presents an exact solution for the ground states of the Ising model with three-spin interactions on a triangular ladder at fixed magnetization by reformulating the problem as a linear program, revealing a phase diagram that includes periodic, phase-separated, and ordered aperiodic states, while showing that treating magnetization as a free parameter restricts the ground states to specific periodic configurations.

Shota GaruchavaThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Hybrid quantum-classical systems: statistics, entropy, microcanonical ensemble and its connection to the canonical ensemble

This paper establishes a rigorous mathematical framework for hybrid classical-quantum systems by deriving their microcanonical ensemble via a maximum entropy principle, demonstrating its well-defined nature for continuous energy values and its consistency with the canonical ensemble, while validating the theory through a toy model.

J. L. Alonso, C. Bouthelier-Madre, A. Castro, J. Clemente-Gallardo, J. A. Jover-GaltierThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse

Using molecular dynamics simulations, this study demonstrates that the collapse of extended polymers exhibits scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation with universal dynamic scaling, where the growth exponent remains constant (z1.67z \approx 1.67) across varying bending stiffness, while deviations from standard diffusion-controlled relations in stiffer polymers arise from stiffness-dependent variations in cluster structure and effective diffusion.

Suman Majumder, Saikat ChakrabortyThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Frustrated Rydberg Atom Arrays Meet Cavity-QED: Emergence of the Superradiant Clock Phase

Using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, this study reveals that infinite-range light-matter interactions in frustrated Rydberg atom triangular arrays lift ground-state degeneracy to induce a novel superradiant clock phase, replacing fragile classical order-by-disorder with a first-order transition driven by nonzero photon density and nonlocal ring exchange interactions.

Ying Liang, Bao-Yun Dong, Zi-Jian Xiong, Xue-Feng ZhangThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Site-decorated model for unconventional frustrated magnets: Ultranarrow phase crossover and two-dimensional spin reversal transition

This paper introduces a site-decorated Ising model that exactly maps to a frustrated bond-decorated system to explain ultranarrow phase crossovers and derive an exact solution for a temperature- or field-triggered spin-reversal transition, offering potential applications in energy-efficient devices and serving as a validated testbed for AI-assisted scientific discovery.

Weiguo YinThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Dimensionality of vortex matter in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates

This study reveals that the dimensionality of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates is extrinsically controlled by disorder, where low disorder yields a quasi-two-dimensional vortex state while increased disorder drives a crossover to a pure two-dimensional state due to the decoupling of NiO₂ planes.

D. Sanchez-Manzano, V. Humbert, D. Zhang, A. Gutiérrez-Llorente, M. Bibes, J. Santamaria L. Iglesias, Javier E. VillegasThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Two-Body Solution and Instabilities along Streda Lines in Moire Flat Bands

This paper investigates the stability and excitation properties of topological states in moiré flat bands modeled as opposite-Chern Landau levels under external magnetic fields, revealing interaction-driven phase transitions and spin-flip instabilities along Streda lines while introducing a novel "center-of-charge" basis to exactly solve the two-body problem with unequal magnetic fields, thereby extending Haldane pseudopotentials to capture non-monotonic interaction structures.

Guopeng Xu, Chunli HuangThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Gap structure and phase diagram of twisted bilayer cuprates from a microscopic perspective

This paper employs a tight-binding lattice model to investigate the gap structure and phase diagram of twisted bilayer cuprates, revealing that the time-reversal symmetry breaking d+idd+id' state is correlated with the Van Hove singularity's position—which varies with doping and interlayer tunneling—and discussing how these findings reconcile conflicting experimental results.

Siddhant Panda, Andreas Kreisel, Laura Fanfarillo, Peter HirschfeldThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Pairing and charge distribution in Emery ladders preserving the ratio of Cu to O atoms

Using the density-matrix renormalization group method, this study demonstrates that Emery ladders preserving the Cu-to-O ratio transition from charge-transfer insulators to Luther-Emery liquids with enhanced pairing upon doping, successfully reproducing the relationships between charge distribution, pairing strength, and interactions observed in both two-dimensional models and experiments.

Gökmen Polat (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany), Eric Jeckelmann (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)Thu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Pauli-limited upper critical field and anisotropic depairing effect of La2.82Sr0.18Ni2O7 superconducting thin film

This study demonstrates that epitaxial La2.82Sr0.18Ni2O7 thin films exhibit intrinsic three-dimensional bulk superconductivity with a sharp transition at 31.6 K, where the in-plane upper critical field is significantly suppressed by spin-paramagnetic pair breaking near the Pauli limit, resulting in a reduced anisotropy ratio of approximately 1.34.

Ke Wang, Maosen Wang, Wei Wei, Bo Hao, Mengqin Liu, Qiaochao Xiang, Xin Zhou, Qiang Hou, Yue Sun, Zengwei Zhu, Sheng Li, Yuefeng Nie, Zhixiang ShiThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Theory of Many-Body Multipole Operators in Single-Centered Electron Systems: Two-Body Toroidal Monopoles in Spinless Orbitals

This paper extends the multipole formalism from one-body to many-body operator spaces by utilizing spherical tensor fermionic operators and exterior algebra to systematically classify interacting systems, revealing that electric and magnetic toroidal monopoles emerge in spinless many-body systems despite being absent in single-particle hybrid orbital spaces.

Shingo Kuniyoshi, Rikuto Oiwa, Satoru HayamiThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Topological Tunneling Magnetoresistance Driven by Type-II Weyl-Like States in the Room-Temperature Half-Metal Mn2PC Monolayer

This paper predicts that the room-temperature ferromagnetic half-metal Mn2PC monolayer hosts type-II Weyl-like states and a concurrent anomalous Hall effect, enabling giant topological tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions for potential spintronic applications.

Wei Ma, Yu-Ting Wang, Wen-Bo Sun, Zhiheng Lv, Shuai Shi, Jian-Hong Rong, Tie-Lei Song, Zhi-Feng LiuThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Observation of Kondo hybridization wave in UTe2

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, researchers report the first experimental observation of a translational-symmetry-breaking Kondo hybridization wave on the surface of the heavy-fermion superconductor UTe2, revealing a new ordered phase that coexists with superconductivity and offers fresh insights into the material's unconventional pairing mechanism.

Xin Yu, Shuikang Yu, Zheyu Wu, Alexander G. Eaton, Andrej Cabala, Michal Vališka, Jun Li, Rui Zhou, Yi-feng Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Peijie Sun, Rui WuThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat