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Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an…

High-temperature superconductivity confined to nanometer-size interfaces has been a long standing goal because of potential applications^{1,2} and the opportunity to study quantum phenomena in reduced dimensions^{3,4}. However, this is a…

The long-sought goal of room-temperature superconductivity has reportedly recently been realized in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride compound under high pressure, as reported by Snider et al. [1]. The evidence presented in that paper is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-31 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

A recent ab initio investigation of Na-C binary compounds under moderate pressures has uncovered a possible stable NaC$_4$ superconductor with an estimated critical temperature up to 41K. We revisit this promising binary system by…

In this letter, we report the discovery of superconductivity in Li3Ca2C6. Several graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) with electron donors, are well known as superconductors. It is probably not astonishing, since it is generally…

Influence of disorder-induced Anderson localization and of electron-electron interaction on superconductivity in two-dimensional systems is explored. We determine the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$, the temperature dependence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-30 I. S. Burmistrov , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The mechanism of superconductivity caused by the electron-vibrational centres and their inherent oscillations in crystals and solid-state structures near room temperature and at higher temperatures - hyperconductivity is discussed and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Vdovenkov

A theory of high temperature superconductivity based on the combination of the fermion-condensation quantum phase transition and the conventional theory of superconductivity is presented. This theory describes maximum values of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ya. Amusia , S. A. Artamonov , V. R. Shaginyan

The discovery of superconductivity in CaC6 with a critical temperature (Tc) of 11.5 K reignites much interest in exploring high-temperature superconductivity in graphite intercalation compounds (GICs). Here we identify a GIC NaC4,…

We report on the direct observation of interface superconductivity in single-unit-cell SnSe2 films grown on graphitized SiC(0001) substrate by means of van der Waals epitaxy. Tunneling spectrum in the superconducting state reveals rather…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-26 Yi-Min Zhang , Jia-Qi Fan , Wen-Lin Wang , Ding Zhang , Lili Wang , Wei Li , Ke He , Can-Li Song , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

We propose a superconducting phase-controlled thermal switch based on a four-terminal graphene-superconductor system. By the coupling of two superconducting leads on a zigzag graphene nanoribbon, both the normal-transmission coefficient and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Peng-Yi Liu , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

The recent surprising discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature $T_c$ = 32 K in MoB$_2$ above 70 GPa has led to the search for related materials that may superconduct at similarly high $T_c$ values and lower pressures. We…

First-principles density-functional calculations are performed to investigate the thermal transport properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The dimensional crossover of thermal conductance from one to two dimensions (2D) is clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian Wang , Xiao-Ming Wang , Yun-Fei Chen , Jian-Sheng Wang

The robustness of the macroscopic quantum nature of a superconductor can be characterized by the superfluid stiffness, $\rho_s$, a quantity that describes the energy required to vary the phase of the macroscopic quantum wave function. In…

We study the thermal conductivity within the E$_{1g}$ and E$_{2u}$ models for superconductivity in UPt$_3$ and compare the theoretical results for electronic heat transport with recently measured results reported by Lussier, Ellman and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. Graf , S. -K. Yip , J. A. Sauls

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy at very low temperature on homogeneously disordered superconducting Titanium Nitride thin films reveals strong spatial inhomogeneities of the superconducting gap $\Delta$ in the density of states. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Sacepe , C. Chapelier , T. I. Baturina , V. M. Vinokur , M. R. Baklanov , M. Sanquer

We propose a way of making graphene superconductive by putting on it small superconductive islands which cover a tiny fraction of graphene area. We show that the critical temperature, T_c, can reach several Kelvins at the experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 M. V. Feigel'man , M. A. Skvortsov , K. S. Tikhonov

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds under extreme pressures has prompted great excitement, intense research, but also debate over the past decade. Electrical transport has been the primary…

We propose potential geometry for fabrication of the graphite sheets with atomically smooth edges. For such sheets with Bernal stacking, the electron-electron interaction and topology should cause sufficiently high density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 G. E. Volovik , V. M. Pudalov

The quantum Hall effect is widely used for the investigation of fundamental phenomena, ranging from topological phases to composite fermions. In particular, the discovery of a room temperature resistance quantum in graphene is significant…