Electronically Inactive Intercalated La2NiO4 Layer in Superconducting La5Ni3O11The recent discovery of superconductivity in La5Ni3O11 extends the family of superconducting Ruddlesden--Popper nickelates beyond La3Ni2O7. Unlike conventional members of a single…Tianyang Xie, Yuxin Wang, Zhan Wang et al.·Jul 29, 2026SaveLearn
DC Josephson transport in a three-terminal Yu-Shiba-Rusinov systemScanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of magnetic adatoms on superconducting surfaces has established Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states as a versatile platform for studying magnetic-superconducting…Subrata Chakraborty·Jul 29, 2026SaveLearn
Thermal phase slips in superconducting films near the critical current at arbitrary temperaturesWe develop a theory of thermal phase slips in disordered superconducting films biased near the critical current Ic(T). Generalizing recent results obtained close to Tc, we show that the optimal…Ivan M. Artemov, Mikhail A. Skvortsov·Jul 29, 2026SaveLearn
A programmable superconductor created by lightThe quest for superconductivity created by light extends for more than half a century, yet direct evidence of a true zero-resistance state - whose macroscopic quantum phase coherence is both created…Viktoria Yursa, Igor Vaskivskyi, Anze Mraz et al.·Jul 29, 2026SaveLearn
Unconventional superconductivity from lattice quantum disorderUnconventional superconductivity presents a defining and enduring challenge in condensed matter physics. Prevailing theoretical frameworks have predominantly emphasized electronic degrees of freedom,…Yu-Cheng Zhu, Jia-Xi Zeng, Xin-Zheng Li·Jul 29, 2026SaveLearn
Gaps in unconventional superconductorsThe energy gap is one of the defining properties of a superconductor and appears because the quasiparticle excitations radically change once a metallic system enters the superconducting state.…Andreas Kreisel·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Nonlocal Majorana polarization in non-Hermitian topological superconductorsThe nonlocal Majorana polarization, defined as the product of the expectation values of the particle-hole operator at opposite halves of the system, has been shown to be a reliable topological…Arjun S. Kumar, Jorge Cayao, Oladunjoye A. Awoga·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Magnetochiral anisotropy in strained superconducting transition metal dichalcogenidesWe present a theoretical study of nonreciprocal charge transport in two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductors, taking the transition-metal dichalcogenide MoS2 as a representative example.…Joaquim Telles de Miranda, Maxim Khodas, Alex Levchenko·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Finite-momentum superconductivity with singlet-triplet mixing in an altermagnetic metal: A pairing instability analysisWe analyze the pairing instability of an altermagnetic metal on a square lattice driven by an attractive nearest-neighbor interaction. This interaction enables multiple pairing channels, including…Hui Hu, Zhao Liu, Jia Wang et al.·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Mechanism for Nodal Topological Superconductivity on PtBi2 SurfaceExperiments show that the Weyl semimetal PtBi2 hosts unconventional superconductivity in its topological surface states. Hence, the material is a candidate for intrinsic topological…Kristian Mæland, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Björn Trauzettel·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Theory of ballistic SNS junctions revisitedThe recently suggested theory of planar ballistic SNS junctions demonstrated that in junctions without normal scattering (the case of equal Fermi velocities and effective masses in all layers) phase…Edouard Sonin·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Conventional and practical metallic superconductivity arising from repulsive Coulomb couplingA concrete question is discussed: Can there be conventional s-wave superconductivity in regular 3D (or 2D) metals, i.e., electrons in a jellium background, interacting via the standard Coulomb…Sankar Das Sarma, Jay D. Sau, Yi-Ting Tu et al.·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Intrinsic Nernst Effect from Berry Curvature in SuperconductorsThe Nernst effect in superconductors is typically linked to fluctuating Cooper pairs above Tc or vortex motion below Tc. We show instead that Berry curvature of Bogoliubov quasiparticles can…Tzu-Chi Hsieh, Cong Xiao, Yi-Ting Hsu·Jul 28, 2026SaveLearn
Probing nonlocal superconducting fluctuations with covariance noise magnetometryThe nonlocal superconducting fluctuation corrections to the conductivity tensor σij(q,ω) are calculated within the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau framework, and their observable…Gustav Romare, Ilya Esterlis, Shimon Kolkowitz et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Stripe-tuned superconductivity in single-flavor metals with nontrivial quantum geometryWe study how the interplay between nontrivial quantum geometry and an applied stripe potential affects superconductivity in a two-dimensional single-flavor metal. Assuming a weak contact attractive…Yi-Ting Tu, Yang-Zhi Chou, Yi Huang et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Emergence of Fermi-liquid and BCS physics in overdoped cupratesCuprates are the paradigmatic `unconventional' superconductors: their critical temperature is much higher than can be expected from phonon-mediated pairing; the superconducting gap has d-wave…B. J. Ramshaw, Steven A. Kivelson·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Nematic and chiral superconductivity emerging within the loop-current phase in kagome metalsThe kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = Cs, Rb, K) host multiple symmetry-breaking phases, including charge-density-wave and loop-current orders, and exhibit highly exotic superconductivity with…Rina Tazai, Youichi Yamakawa, Hiroshi Kontani·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Berry curvature effects of chiral superconducting rhombohedral grapheneWe study the Berry curvature effects of the Bogoliubov quasiparticles in chiral superconducting rhombohedral graphene. Using a two-band Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian to describe the…Jian-Hua Zeng, Zhi Wang, Qian Niu·Jul 26, 2026SaveLearn
Effects on a metal that is proximately coupled to hyperbolic photon modesThe hyperbolic mode (HM) refers to a polariton mode in a polar insulator where the dielectric function is negative in some direction of propagation. Within a frequency window the light occupies a…Zhiyu Dong, Patrick A. Lee·Jul 26, 2026SaveLearn
Effect of the hyperbolic photon mode on a proximate materialThe hyperbolic mode (HM) refers to a polariton mode where the dielectric function is negative in some direction of propagation. Within a frequency window the light occupies a greatly expanded region…Zhiyu Dong, Patrick A. Lee·Jul 26, 2026SaveLearn
Bipolar Thermoelectric Superconducting Quantum DevicesQuantum technologies increasingly require accurate modeling of their hardware components and of the non-equilibrium regimes in which they operate, where managing heat and energy flow becomes a…F. Antola, G. Marchegiani, A. Braggio et al.·Jul 25, 2026SaveLearn
Evolution of the electronic and superconducting properties of Re-based quinary high-entropy alloys under chemical and physical pressureWe report a comparative study of chemical- and physical-pressure effects on the electronic and superconducting properties of the Re-based quinary high-entropy alloys (HEAs) [Nb0.67-xRex][TiZrHf]0.33…Thiagarajan Maran, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Sathea Suweatha M N et al.·Jul 25, 2026SaveLearn
Pairing mechanism and superconductivity in 1313 phase La3Ni2O7Recently, the observation of superconductivity (SC) with Tc ≈ 3.6 K in the pressurized 1313 La3Ni2O7 has attracted considerable interest. Here, we systematically investigate the…Cui-Qun Chen, Ming Zhang, Fan Yang et al.·Jul 25, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Quantum-Critical Routes to Magnetic SuperconductivityElectronic superconductivity is most commonly understood to be associated with magnetic quantum criticality. This framework is natural when a quantum critical point is present below the peak of the…Zhiqiang Wang, Ke Wang, K. Levin·Jul 25, 2026SaveLearn
Structural stability, electronic structure, and magnetism of the d9 double infinite-layer La3Ni2O5F under chemical pressure and epitaxial strainNickelate materials exhibit rich electronic properties that can be engineered toward cuprate-like regimes through topotactic and mixed-anion chemistry. Using first-principles calculations, we…K. Madani, Q. N. Meier, A. Cano·Jul 24, 2026SaveLearn