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Effective increase of a superconducting critical temperature in a high-entropy electron mixture

Superconductivity 2026-05-18 v1

Abstract

We show theoretically that a superconducting critical temperature can be effectively increased in a high-entropy mixture of electrons belonging to conduction and valence bands. In order to employ the entropy of mixing into the superconducting phase dynamics, we suggest to use a metallic trap that removes quasiparticle excitations from the superconductor. This makes the concentration of Cooper pairs a dynamic variable of the entropy of mixing, and thus affects the Ginzburg-Landau functional of the superconductor effectively reducing the first expansion coefficient or, in other words, increasing the critical temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2605.15834,
  title  = {Effective increase of a superconducting critical temperature in a high-entropy electron mixture},
  author = {Viktoriia Kornich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15834},
  year   = {2026}
}