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The co-existence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity becomes possible through unconventional pairing in the superconducting state. Such materials are exceedingly rare in solid-state systems but are promising platforms to explore…

Superconductors with nontrivial band structure topology represent a class of materials with unconventional and potentially useful properties. Recent years have seen much success in creating artificial hybrid structures exhibiting main…

The search for nontrivial superconductivity in novel quantum materials is currently a most attractive topic in condensed matter physics and material science. The experimental studies have progressed quickly over the past couple of years. In…

The topic of superconductivity in strongly disordered materials has attracted a significant attention. In particular vivid debates are related to the subject of intrinsic spatial inhomogeneity responsible for non-BCS relation between the…

Ti-based two-dimensional transition-metal carbides (MXenes) have attracted attention due to their superior properties and are being explored across various applications1,2. Despite their versatile properties, superconductivity has never…

We obtain the general conditions for the emergence of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system proximity-coupled to a superconductor, making minimal assumptions about both the 2D system and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Christopher Triola , Driss M. Badiane , Alexander V. Balatsky , E. Rossi

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals have renewed opportunities in design and assembly of artificial lattices without the constraints of epitaxy. However, the lack of thickness control in exfoliated van der Waals (vdW) layers prevents realization…

Recently, Ising superconductors which possess in-plane upper critical fields much larger than the Pauli limit field are under intense experimental study. Many monolayer or few layer transition metal dichalcogenides are shown to be Ising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-13 Wen-Yu He , Benjamin T. Zhou , James J. He , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Ting Zhang , K. T. Law

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

High temperature superconductivity is typically associated with strong coupling and a large superconducting gap, yet these characteristics have not been demonstrated in the nickelates. Here, we provide experimental evidence that Eu…

Currently, superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) materials is a hot topic of research owing to their potential technological applications. Here, we report observation of superconductivity in a 2D Nb2C MXene with transition temperature…

Recently, two-dimensional Nb$_2$C has garnered increasing attention due to its functional-group-dependent superconductivity, both experimentally and theoretically. In contrast to the halogen and chalcogen additives that have been the main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-30 Lingxiao Xiong , Yuhui Yan , Feipeng Zheng

High-temperature cuprate superconductors have naturally a superlattice structure. Infinite-layer CaCuO2 is the common ingredient of cuprates with superconducting transition temperatures above 100 K. However, infinite-layer CaCuO2 by itself…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Ai Ikeda , Yoshiharu Krockenberger , Yoshitaka Taniyasu , Hideki Yamamoto

The presence of a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure and in-plane mirror symmetry allows an Ising spin-orbit coupling to form in some two-dimensional materials. Examples include transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-04 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

Porous silicon, obtained by electrochemical etching, has been used as a substrate for the growth of nanoperforated Nb thin films. The films, deposited by UHV magnetron sputtering on the porous Si substrates, inherited their structure made…

Recent technological advances in controlling materials have developed methods to produce idealized two-dimensional (2D) electron systems such as heterogeneous interfaces, molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) grown atomic layers, exfoliated thin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-13 Yu Saito , Tsutomu Nojima , Yoshihiro Iwasa

Silicon is the most popular material used in electronic devices. However, its poor optical properties owing to its indirect band gap nature limit its usage in optoelectronic devices. Here we present the discovery of super-stable…

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Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductors have unique and desirable properties for integration with conventional superconducting circuits. However, fully superconducting contact must be made between the 2D…

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are ideal systems for exploring the effects of dimensionality on correlated electronic phases such as charge density wave (CDW) order and superconductivity. In bulk NbSe2 a CDW sets in at TCDW…

In a previous study, we proposed a possibility of high $T_c$ superconductivity in mixed-anion nickelates with $d^{8+\delta}$ electron configuration. The theory was based on the fact that the two-orbital Hubbard model, when all the intra-…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Naoya Kitamine , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki