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We present a detailed description of a zero temperature phase transition between superconducting and diffusive metallic states in very thin wires due to a Cooper pair breaking mechanism. The dissipative critical theory contains current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-02 Adrian Del Maestro , Bernd Rosenow , Subir Sachdev

As superconductors are thinned down to the 2D limit, their critical temperature $T_c$ typically decreases. Here we report the opposite behavior, a substantial enhancement of $T_c$ with decreasing thickness, in 2D crystalline superconductor…

We study the influence of thermal fluctuations on the magnetic behavior of square mesoscopic superconductors. The strength of thermal fluctuations are parameterized using the Ginzburg number, which is small ($G_i \approx 10^{-10}$) in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander D. Hernandez , B. J. Baelus , Daniel Dominguez , F. M. Peeters

I present a selection of experimental results on metallic cuprates, both above the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ (often called the strange metal state) and in the superconducting state. It highlights this still poorly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 T. V. Ramakrishnan

We study the effect of fluctuations on the {\bf ac} conductivity of a layered superconductor both for $c$-axis and $ab$-plane electromagnetic wave polarizations. The fluctuation contributions of different physical nature and signs…

supr-con · Physics 2009-10-30 Francesca Federici , Andrei A. Varlamov

We study the rate of quantum phase slips in an ultranarrow superconducting nanowire exposed to weak electromagnetic radiations. The superconductor is in the dirty limit close to the superconducting-insulating transition, where fluxoids move…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Amir Jafari-Salim , Amin Eftekharian , A. Hamed Majedi , Mohammad H. Ansari

Spin fluctuation-induced superconductivity in quasi-two dimensional organic compounds, \kappa-BEDT-TTF salts, is investigated within a fluctuation exchange (FLEX) approximation using a half-filled Hubbard model with a right-angled isosceles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-15 Hisashi Kondo , Tôru Moriya

We present measurements of the temperature and power dependence of the resonance frequency and frequency noise of superconducting niobium thin-film coplanar waveguide resonators, carried out at temperatures well below the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Shwetank Kumar , Jiansong Gao , Jonas Zmuidzinas , Benjamin A. Mazin , Henry G. LeDuc , Peter K. Day

We report the synthesis of high-quality 2H-TaS2 nanowires via a controlled two-step conversion process from TaS3 precursors, achieving robust superconductivity with a transition temperature Tc ~ 3.6 K which is significantly higher than bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Mathew Pollard , Visakha Ho , Clarissa Wisner , Eric Bohannan , Yew San Hor

We analyze the anomalies of superconducting state in the model of pseudogap state induced by fluctuations of short - range order of "dielectric" (AFM(SDW) or CDW) type, and based on the scenario of "hot spots" formation on the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Z. Kuchinskii , N. A. Kuleeva , M. V. Sadovskii

We study numerically the temperature dependencies of specific heat, susceptibility, penetration depth, and thermal conductivity of a coupled $(d_{x^2-y^2}+is)$-wave Bardeen-Cooper-Schreiffer superconductor in the presence of a weak s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Angsula Ghosh , Sadhan K. Adhikari

Recent experiments on K$_3$C$_{60}$ and layered copper-oxide materials have reported substantial changes in the optical response following application of an intense THz pulse. These data have been interpreted as the stimulation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Giuliano Chiriacò , Andrew J. Millis , Igor L. Aleiner

In thin superconducting wires, phase-slip by thermal activation near the critical temperature is a well-known effect. It has recently become clear that phase-slip by quantum tunnelling through the energy barrier can also have a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. E. Mooij , C. J. P. M. Harmans

Hysteretic I-V (current-voltage) is studied in narrow Al nanowires. The nanowires have a cross section as small as 50 nm^2. We focus on the retapping current in a down-sweep of the current, at which a nanowire re-enters the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Peng Li , Phillip M. Wu , Yuriy Bomze , Ivan V. Borzenets , Gleb Finkelstein , A. M. Chang

We discuss intrinsic relaxation rates in superconductors, and how they may be measured using non-linear optical (terahertz) response. We consider both $s$ and $d$-wave superconductors, both with and without a phenomenological (energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Wei-En Tseng , Rahul Nandkishore

Phase slips play a primary role in dissipation across a wide spectrum of bosonic systems, from determining the critical velocity of superfluid helium to generating resistance in thin superconducting wires. This subject has also inspired…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. McKay , M. White , M. Pasienski , B. DeMarco

Current dissipation in thin superconducting wires is numerically evaluated by using the string method, within the framework of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with a Langevin noise term. The most probable transition pathway between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Tiezheng Qian , Weiqing Ren , Ping Sheng

Recently, we presented a paper about the tip-induced superconducting phase on TaAs single crystal (arXiv:1607.00513). A conductance plateau with double conductance peaks at finite bias, sharp double dips and a zero bias conductance peak…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-12 He Wang , Huichao Wang , Yuqin Chen , Jiawei Luo , Zhujun Yuan , Jun Liu , Yong Wang , Shuang Jia , Xiong-Jun Liu , Jian Wei , Jian Wang

We have studied the enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, in a t-J-U model of electrons moving on a square lattice in which anisotropic electronic hopping is introduced. The inclusion of such hopping mimics, in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Saurabh Basu , A. Callan-Jones , R. J. Gooding

The recently reported gate-tunable superconductivity in monolayer WTe$_2$ [Science 362, 922 (2018); Science 362, 926 (2018); Nat. Phys. 20, 269 (2024); PRR 7, 013224 (2025)] exhibits several striking anomalies beyond the standard paradigm,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-04 F. Yang , G. D. Zhao , Y. Shi , L. Q. Chen