Novel coupling between charge order and time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconductivityThe interplay between charge-density waves (CDWs), which break translational symmetry, and spatially homogeneous superconductivity, which breaks global U(1) gauge symmetry, can give rise to an…Quanxin Hu, Lingfeng Zhang, Yu Zheng et al.·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Fabrication and characterization of Nb/Al-AlN /Nb superconducting tunnel junctionsWe report a Nb/Al-AlN /Nb superconducting tunnel junction process in which the AlN barrier is formed by plasma nitridation using a compact microwave electron-cyclotron-resonance (ECR) nitrogen plasma…Alexey Pavolotsky, François Joint, Udupa Sujit Manjunatha et al.·Dec 7, 2025SaveLearn
Robust Superconductivity and High Upper Critical Fields in Epitaxial cubic W2N Thin FilmsTransition Metal Nitrides are a versatile class of materials, combining chemical robustness, high hardness, and superconducting behaviour with critical temperatures between 2 to 10 K. While several…Aditya Singh, Arnaud le Febvrier, Sanath Kumar Honnali et al.·Dec 6, 2025SaveLearn
A "negative" route to pair density wave orderPair density waves (PDW) are novel forms of superconducting states that exhibit periodically modulated pairing. A remaining challenge is to elucidate how intrinsic PDW order can emerge robustly in…Hao-Xin Wang, Yi-Jian Hu, Wen Huang et al.·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Chern Dartboard SuperconductorsWe investigate the interplay of particle-hole symmetry and sub-Brillouin zone (sBZ) topology by coupling a so-called Chern dartboard insulator (CDI) to a superconductor (SC) via the proximity effect.…Rebecca Chan, Taylor L. Hughes·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Interplay of ferroelectricity and interlayer superconductivity in van der Waals bilayersWe study the distinctive features of the interplay between the interlayer superconductivity and ferroelectricity in van der Waals heterostructures. Corresponding analysis is carried out within the…D. S. Annenkov, A. A. Kopasov, A. S. Mel'nikov·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Guest metal-driven quantum anharmonic effects on stability and two-gap superconductivity in carbon-boron clathratesTraditionally, strong quantum anharmonic effects have been considered a characteristic of hydrogen-rich compounds. Here we propose that these effects also play a decisive role in boron-carbon…Xianghui Meng, Yanqing Shen, Xin Yang et al.·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Zero-field superconducting diode effect induced by magnetic flux in a van der Waals superconductor trigonal PtBi2The superconducting diode effect is one of the nonreciprocal transport phenomena, where the critical current depends on the current direction. This effect is typically realized in superconductors…Nan Jiang, Masaki Maeda, Yuhi Yamaguchi et al.·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Fluorine-substitution-dependent phase diagram and superconducting properties of Sm-based oxypnictides synthesized by a high-pressure growth techniqueA series of SmFeAsO1-xFx (Sm1111) bulk samples (x = 0.05 to 0.40) are synthesized by an in-situ cubic-anvil high-pressure technique at 4 GPa and systematically characterized through structural,…Mohammad Azam, Tatiana Zajarniuk, Ryszard Diduszko et al.·Dec 4, 2025SaveLearn
Interplay between Superconductivity and Altermagnetism in Disordered Materials and HeterostructuresWe study the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems using recently derived quantum kinetic transport equations. Starting from this framework, we derive the…Rodrigo de las Heras, Tim Kokkeler, Stefan Ilić et al.·Dec 4, 2025SaveLearn
Evolution of Correlated Electrons in La3Ni2O7 at Ambient Pressure: a Study of Double-Counting EffectWe employ cluster extension of dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) to systematically investigate the impact of double counting corrections on the correlated electronic structure of $…Zhong-Yi Xie, Zhihui Luo, Wéi Wú et al.·Dec 4, 2025SaveLearn
Superconductivity onset above 60 K in ambient-pressure nickelate filmsAmbient-pressure superconductivity in nickelates has been capped at an onset transition temperature (Tconset) of ~50 K, a value that remains lower than the cuprate (~133 K) and iron-based…Guangdi Zhou, Heng Wang, Haoliang Huang et al.·Dec 4, 2025SaveLearn
Demonstration of surface-engineered oxidation-resistant Nb-Nb thermocompression bonding toward scalable superconducting quantum computing architecturesScalable quantum computing currently requires a large array of qubit integration, but present two-dimensional interconnects face challenges such as wiring congestion, electromagnetic interference,…Harsh Mishra, Yusuke Kozuka, Sathish Bonam et al.·Dec 4, 2025SaveLearn
Highly Anisotropic Charge Dynamics and Spectral Weight Redistribution in the Trilayer Nickelate La4Ni3O10We study the ab-plane and c-axis charge dynamics of La4Ni3O10 using optical spectroscopy. While a pronounced Drude profile, i.e. metallic response, is observed in the ab-plane…Zhe Liu, Jie Li, Deyuan Hu et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Revisiting Phase Stability and Superconductivity in Ca-H Superhydrides with Anharmonic EffectsThe prediction of superconductivity above 200 K in CaH6 revolutionized research on hydrogen-rich superconductors, and subsequent experiments have verified this prediction, while unidentified peaks…Wenbo Zhao, Zefang Wang, Ying Sun et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Short-Range Modulated Electron Lattice and d-Wave Superconductivity in Cuprates: A Phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau FrameworkA short-range charge modulation near 0.3 reciprocal lattice units along the Cu-O bond is present in every hole-doped cuprate family. Resonant x-ray scattering now shows that superconductivity does…Jaehwahn Kim, Davis A. Rens, Waqas Khalid et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Ferroelectric Hysteresis in Superconducting Bilayer Td-MoTe2Recently, the displacement-field-driven hysteretic switching of superconductivity was reported in ferroelectric bilayer Td-MoTe2. Such direct coupling between ferroelectricity and…Yanfang Li, Xin-Zhi Li, Wen-Yu He·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Super-hard and superconducting boron clathrates in the prediction of U-B compoundsThe binary metal borides provide a promising platform for searching unique materials with superconductivity and super-hardness under high pressure, owing to the distinctive bonding characters of…Juefei Wu, Dexi Shao, Junjie Wang et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Proximity-induced superconductivity in magnetic topological insulator filmsInducing superconducting correlations in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is emerging as a promising route toward the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes. Here, we…Daniele Di Miceli, Eduárd Zsurka, Kristof Moors et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Magnetotransport and Carrier Dynamics in Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet KMn6Bi5Quasi-one-dimensional materials AMn6Bi5 (A = Na, K, Rb, Cs) exhibit unique electronic behaviors such as antiferromagnetism, charge density waves, and pressure-induced superconductivity.…Qi-Yuan Liu, Chenfei Shi, Zhaodi Lin et al.·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Superexchanges and Charge Transfer in the La3Ni2O7 Thin FilmsThe recent discovery of ambient-pressure superconductivity with Tc above 40 K in La3Ni2O7 thin films represents a significant advance in the field of nickelate superconductor. Motivated…Yuxun Zhong, Wéi Wú, Dao-Xin Yao·Dec 3, 2025SaveLearn
Higgs physics in superconductorsAs pointed out by Nambu&Goldstone, continuous symmetry breaking gives rise to gapless bosonic excitation. In superconductors, continuous local U(1) gauge symmetry is broken. The gapless excitation…Hao Chu, Haotian Zhang, Zhili Zhang·Dec 2, 2025SaveLearn
Intrinsic Second-Order Topological Superconductors with Tunable Majorana Zero ModesDirac semimetals, with their protected Dirac points, present an ideal platform for realizing intrinsic topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate superconductivity in a…Xiao-Jiao Wang, Yijie Mo, Zhi Wang et al.·Dec 2, 2025SaveLearn
Phase-sensitive non-reciprocal transport in high-temperature superconductorWe propose the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in a planar s-wave/d-wave/s-wave Josephson junction as a direct phase-sensitive probe of the d-wave pairing function in high-Tc superconductors.…Guo-Liang Guo, Xin Liu·Dec 2, 2025SaveLearn
Intrinsic and Tunable Superconducting Diode Effect in Quantum Spin Hall SystemsNonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such…Samuele Fracassi, Simone Traverso, Stefan Heun et al.·Dec 2, 2025SaveLearn