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We discovered the enhancement of superconducting transition temperature, Tc, in yttrium sesquicarbide system with the maximum Tc of Tc=18K and their superconducting properties were discussed. The crystal structure of Y2C3 is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Amano , S. Akutagawa , T. Muranaka , Y. Zenitani , J. Akimitsu

The amplitude of ground state superconducting energy gap $\Delta(0)$ and relative jump in electronic specific heat at the transition temperature, $\Delta$$C$${/}$$\gamma$$T_c$, are primary fundamental parameters of any superconductor. There…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-08 E. F. Talantsev

We present a theory of vortex liquid-to-solid transition in homogeneous quasi 2D superconductors. The free energy is written as a functional l of density of zeroes of the fluctuating order parameter. The transition is weakly first-order and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Igor Herbut , Zlatko Tesanovic

A thermodynamic model of a plasma boundary layer, characterized by enhanced temperature contrasts is proposed. The theory is constructed to determine the inner boundary temperature $T_1$ for a specified outer (colder) boundary temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Swadesh M. Mahajan , David R. Hatch , Zensho Yoshida , Mike Kotschenreuther

We propose a model and derive analytical expressions for conductivity in heterogeneous fully anisotropic conductors with ellipsoid superconducting inclusions. This model and calculations are useful to analyze the observed temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-02 S. S. Seidov , K. K. Kesharpu , P. I. Karpov , P. D. Grigoriev

Using a dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo approximation we investigate the d-wave superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in the doped 2D repulsive Hubbard model with a weak inhomogeneity. The inhomogeneity is introduced in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 D. G. S. P. Doluweera , A. Macridin , T. A. Maier , M. Jarrell , Th. Pruschke

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 consider the low-temperature thermal transport properties of the 2D proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface between a 3D strong topological insulator (TI) and a d-wave superconductor (dSC). This system is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-06 Adam C. Durst

We suggest that the high temperature superconductivity in cuprate compounds may emerge due to interaction between copper-oxygen layers mediated by in-plane plasmons. The strength of the interaction is determined by the c-axis geometry and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Chernodub

In a superconductor, the ratio of the carrier density, $n$, to their effective mass, $m^*$, is a fundamental property directly reflecting the length scale of the superfluid flow, the London penetration depth, $\lambda_L$. In two dimensional…

The superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of a single layer graphene coupled to an Indium oxide (InO) film, a low carrier-density superconductor, is found to increase with decreasing carrier density and is largest close to the average…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-20 Gopi Nath Daptary , Udit Khanna , Eyal Walach , Arnab Roy , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Theoretical analysis of a prototypical two-qubit effective non-Hermitian system characterized by asymmetric Heisenberg $XY$ interactions in the absence of external magnetic fields demonstrates that maximal bipartite entanglement and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Bikashkali Midya

Deterministic enhancement of the superconducting (SC) critical temperature $T_c$ is a long-standing goal in material science. One strategy is engineering a material at the nanometer scale such that quantum confinement strengthens the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-30 Uwe S. Pracht , Nimrod Bachar , Lara Benfatto , Guy Deutscher , Eli Farber , Martin Dressel , Marc Scheffler

Near a quantum critical point (QCP) in a metal, strong Fermion-Fermion interactions mediated by soft collective bosons give rise to two competing phenomena: non-Fermi liquid behavior and superconductivity that deviates from conventional BCS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Ahmed Elezaby , Artem Abanov

We derive a method to study the phase diagram for high temperature superconductors (HTCS). Our starting point is the Hubbard Hamiltonian with a weak attractive interaction to obtain the formation of bound pairs. We consider this attractive…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Evandro V. L. de Mello

The experimental determination of the superconducting transition requires the observation of the emergence of zero-resistance and perfect diamagnetism state. Based on the close relationship between superconducting transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-07 Sheng-Hai Zhu , Han Qin , Mi Zhong , Dai-He Fan , Xiang-Hui Chang , Yun Wei , Miao Zhang , Tao Zhu , Bin Tang , Fu-Sheng Liu , Qi-Jun Liu

In this note, we have addressed various issues on zero temperature holographic superfluids. First, inspired by our numerical evidence for the equality between the superfluid density and particle density, we provide an elegant analytic proof…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-19 Minyong Guo , Shanquan Lan , Chao Niu , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang

The structural, elastic, electronic, thermal and optical properties of superconducting MAX phases Ti2InX (X = C, N) are investigated by density functional theory (DFT). The results obtained from the least studied nitride phase are discussed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-25 M. Roknuzzaman , A. K. M. A. Islam

Using the Eliashberg strong coupling theory with vertex correction, we calculate maps of transition temperatures (T$_{c}$) of electron-phonon superconductors in full parameter space. The maximums of transition temperatures for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Fan

We have done a finite-size scaling study of a continuous phase transition altered by the quenched bond disorder, investigating systems at quasicritical temperatures of each disorder realization by using the equilibriumlike invaded cluster…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-21 Ivan Balog , Katarina Uzelac