Selective suppression of electronic orders via interlayer coupling in superconducting bilayer nickelate thin filmsThe discovery of spin-density-wave (SDW) order in bilayer nickelates has intensified interest in its interplay with superconductivity. Unlike cuprates, where doping rapidly suppresses the Néel…Ziao Han, Lifen Xiang, Tianren Wang et al.·Oct 1, 2026SaveLearn
Highly anisotropic collective modes of altermagnetic superconductors with Bogoliubov Fermi surfacesWe investigate collective modes in charge-neutral altermagnetic superconductors with d-wave spin-split bands, focusing on the impact of emergent Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces. In the absence of a…Huaisong Zhao, Peng Zou, Xia-Ji Liu et al.·Oct 1, 2026SaveLearn
Electronic structure and two-orbital model of the quadlayer La5Ni4O13The discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in Ruddlesden--Popper (RP) nickelates has stimulated extensive interest in high-Tc superconductors. Here, we systematically study the electronic…Jian-Xiang Sun, Haokan Xiao, Cui-Qun Chen et al.·Sep 30, 2026SaveLearn
Electronic Reconstruction across the Tilt-Free Transition in La3Ni2O7The emergence of high-Tc superconductivity in pressurized La3Ni2O7 is intimately linked to a structural transition that suppresses the tilts of the NiO6 octahedra, yet its impact on…Mengjie Kong, Gergely Németh, Yingpeng Yu et al.·Sep 30, 2026SaveLearn
A Different Perspective on Superconductivity in Crystalline Graphene: Exploiting EnergeticsA central mystery of crystalline graphene is why superconductivity is so widespread yet often confined to strange slivers near boundaries between distinct isospin-ordered metals. In this paper, we…Ke Wang, Shicong Song, K. Levin·Sep 30, 2026SaveLearn
Spectroscopic Evidence for Nontrivial Band Topology in Superconducting FeTe/MnTe HeterostructureFeTe has long been regarded as a nonsuperconducting antiferromagnetic metal with trivial band topology, but recent advances in stoichiometry control have begun to challenge this picture. Here we use…Shiwu Su, Yu Liang, Tongrui Li et al.·Sep 30, 2026SaveLearn
Imaging phase winding in topological superconductors with a fork-tip Josephson STMThe complex phase winding in a topological superconductor remains challenging to access by conventional real-space probes. We propose a scheme to probe this winding with a fork-tip Josephson STM near…Vladislav Poliakov, Archisman Panigrahi·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Anisotropic interface-confined superconductivity in FeTe-based heterostructuresInterface-confined superconductivity emerges from the interaction of electronic states across chemically distinct boundaries, providing a route to engineer superconducting phases where magnetism and…Bicky Singh Moirangthem, Kamal R. Joshi, Zi-Jie Yan et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Reversible field-free superconducting diode effect controlled by an antiferromagnetThe semiconductor diode, which allows current to flow preferentially in one direction, is a fundamental building block of numerous modern electronic circuits. Its superconducting analogue---the…Filip Krizek, Kamil Olejník, Tobias Edwinson et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Evanescent-wave Johnson Noise from SuperconductorsWe compute the evanescent-wave Johnson noise (EWJN) in the vacuum half-space above a superconductor, and the resulting relaxation time (T1) of spin and charge qubits placed at nanometer distances…Hruday Mallubhotla, Gustav Romare, Ilya Esterlis et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Enhanced Critical Currents and Irreversibility Fields in YBa2Cu4O8 Films through Ca-SubstitutionThe intrinsic carrier concentration of superconducting materials may not be optimal, and different superconducting properties may have distinct optimal doping levels. Here, we show that Ca…Jiangteng Liu, Shuhei Funaki, Yuki Ogimoto et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Periodic Trends and a Physics-Based Multistage Search for High-Tc Hydride SuperconductorsHydrogen-rich materials under pressure are candidates for conventional phonon-mediated superconductivity, but first-principles electron--phonon-coupling (EPC) calculations are computationally…Tianran Chen, Taner Yildirim·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Improving the critical current density of the V0.59Ti0.40Ce0.01 alloy superconductor through successive cold-working and annealing at different temperaturesThe critical current density (Jc) of V-Ti alloy superconductors is strongly influenced by the size and distribution of microstructural defects that pin magnetic flux lines. In this work, the…Asi Khandelwal, SK. Ramjan, Basudev Padhi et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Low-Temperature Stabilization of δ-NbN Superconducting Thin Films through Energy-Selective Ion Beam SputteringAchieving high-quality superconducting thin films at low temperatures is a central challenge for scalable quantum device integration and Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible…Yifan Liu, Junwoo Lee, Mingyu Xu et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Unconventional superconductivity in locally non-centrosymmetric CeNi2As2Recent years have seen intense research on heavy fermion superconductivity, inspired by the discovery of multiple superconducting phases in UTe2 and CeRh2As2. In the…Félix Morineau, Jan Knapp, Javier Landaeta et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Superconducting Pairing Symmetry on Geometric-Algebra Foundations via the Scalar-Projection MethodWe formulate the low-energy theory of superconducting pairing in the geometric algebra Cl3,0. Conventional BCS mean-field theory and its extensions (s-, p-, d-wave, etc.) have algebraic…Youping Dai·Sep 27, 2026SaveLearn
Spin pumping reveals vortex-mediated angular-momentum dissipation at the superconducting transitionSpin pumping into superconductors is generally expected to become less efficient below the critical temperature Tc because quasiparticle transport freezes out. Here we report a pronounced…Maximilian Mangold, Alex Burg, Franz Weidenhiller et al.·Sep 26, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum Geometric Origin of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov StatesIn this work, we revisit the classic Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) problem of magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors and uncover a quantum geometric origin of the YSR bound-state structure. The key…Rui-Xing Zhang·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
Topological Superconducting Phases in a Strained Altermagnet-Superconductor HeterostructureWe investigate topological superconductivity in a heterostructure consisting of a two-dimensional s-wave superconductor and a d-wave altermagnet with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In particular, we…Keita Yoshizawa, Ryo Okugawa, Takami Tohyama·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
Electrochemical Growth of Full Volume Meissner Effect Superconducting BKBOIn this work we show the results of electrochemical synthesis of BKBO crystals using three different experimental setup configurations. The setups differ between each other by varying level of…Oleksandr Foyevtsov, Kateryna Foyevtsova, Mohamed Oudah et al.·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric NbReSi: Beyond Harmonic and Adiabatic LimitsThe noncentrosymmetric superconductor NbReSi (Tc=6.5 K) is being actively explored for unconventional pairing that is allowed by its broken inversion symmetry. Despite broad experimental interest,…Shashi B. Mishra, Sohair ElMeligy, Pratibha Dev·Sep 24, 2026SaveLearn
Repulsion-Driven p - i p Superconductivity in a Single Valley Revealed by DMRGWe demonstrate repulsion-driven topological superconductivity of a single species of Dirac fermions, motivated by valley-polarized phases observed in two-dimensional materials such as rhombohedral…Cesar A. Gallegos, Omid Tavakol, Christopher Yang et al.·Sep 24, 2026SaveLearn
Bounds on Bose-Einstein Condensation of Higgs modes in a SuperconductorCollective modes in a superconductor correspond to fluctuations in the amplitude (Higgs mode) or the phase (Goldstone mode) of the order parameter. Starting from the BCS Hamiltonian, we derive a…Z. E. Krix, Daniel Loss·Sep 24, 2026SaveLearn
Superconductivity in structurally complex σ-Phase Re-X (X = V, Nb, Ta) and a derived medium-entropy alloysThe structurally complex tetragonal sigma (σ)-phase provides a unique platform for investigating the interplay between chemical disorder, electronic structure, and superconductivity, particularly…Pavan Kumar Meena, Tomasz Klimczuk·Sep 24, 2026SaveLearn
Nodal Orbital-Anti-Phase Superconducting State in Bilayer NickelatesThe recent discovery of high-Tc superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7 (La-327) under applied pressure and compressive strain opened a new avenue to elucidate the interplay…Marius Scholten, Steffen Bötzel, Frank Lechermann et al.·Sep 24, 2026SaveLearn