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Platforms for creating Majorana quasiparticles rely on superconductivity and breaking of time-reversal symmetry. By studying continuous deformations to known trivial states, we find that the relationship between superconducting pairing and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Kim Pöyhönen , Daniel Varjas , Michael Wimmer , Anton R. Akhmerov

Ordinary superconductors are widely assumed insensitive to small concentrations of random nonmagnetic impurities, whereas strong disorder suppresses superconductivity, ultimately leading to a superconductor-insulator transition. In between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-24 D. Jones , A. Östlin , A. Weh , F. Beiuseanu , U. Eckern , L. Vitos , L. Chioncel

The cuprate high-temperature superconductors exhibit many unexplained electronic phases, but it was often thought that the superconductivity at sufficiently high doping is governed by conventional mean-field Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS)…

We compare predictions of the mean-field theory of superconductivity for nearly antiferromagnetic and nearly ferromagnetic metals for cubic and tetragonal lattices. The calculations are based on the parametrization of an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Monthoux , G. G. Lonzarich

Layered material structures play a key role in enhancing electron-electron interactions to create correlated metallic phases that can transform into unconventional superconducting states. The quasi-two-dimensional electronic properties of…

Improving the coherence of superconducting qubits is essential for advancing quantum technologies. While superconductors are theoretically perfect conductors, they consistently exhibit residual energy dissipation when driven by microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Thibault Charpentier , Anton Khvalyuk , Lev Ioffe , Mikhail Feigel'man , Nicolas Roch , Benjamin Sacépé

Superconductivity realized in bilayer nickelate thin films enables direct spectroscopic and transport studies at ambient pressure. However, a persistent two-step resistive transition remains a major barrier to achieving optimal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-10 Ziao Han , Lifen Xiang , X. J. Zhou , Zhihai Zhu

The thermodynamic parameters of the superconducting state in Calcium under the pressure at 200 GPa have been determined. The numerical analysis by using the Eliashberg equations in the mixed representation has been conducted. It has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-27 R. Szczęśniak , A. P. Durajski

Superconductor films on semiconductor substrates draw much attention recently since the derived superconductor-based electronics have been shown promising for future data process and storage technologies. By growing atomically uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Jian Wang , Xu-Cun Ma , Yun Qi , Ying-Shuang Fu , Shuai-hua Ji , Li Lu , X. C. Xie , Jin-Feng Jia , Xi Chen , Qi-Kun Xue

We investigate the minimal size of small superconducting grains by means of a Ginzburg-Landau model confined to a sphere of radius $R$. This model is supposed to describe a material in the form of a ball, whose transition temperature when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Abreu , A. P. C. Malbouisson , I. Roditi

Microwave-field distribution, dissipation, and surface impedance are theoretically investigated for superconductors with laminar grain boundaries (GBs). In the present theory we adopt the two-fluid model for intragrain transport current in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasunori Mawatari

The discovery of superconductivity in 3$d$-transition metal compounds with strong magnetism is interesting but rare. Especially for Mn-based compounds, there exist only very limited materials that show superconductivity. Here, we report the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-17 Zhe-Ning Xiang , Ying-Jie Zhang , Qing Lu , Qing Li , Yiwen Li , Tianheng Huang , Yijie Zhu , Yongze Ye , Jian Sun , Hai-Hu Wen

We report resistivity and upper critical field B_c2(T) data for As deficient LaO_(0.9)F_(0.1)FeAs_(1-delta) in a wide temperature and high field range up to 60 T. These disordered samples exhibit a slightly enhanced superconducting…

Underdoped cuprate superconductors are believed to be strongly correlated with electronic systems with small phase stiffness leading to a large phase fluctuation region is known as the pseudogap state. With increasing doping it is generally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-03 Hércules H. Santana and , E. V. L. de Mello

We report the high-field superconducting properties of thin, disordered Re films via magneto-transport and tunneling density of states measurements. Films with thicknesses in the range of 9 nm to 3 nm had normal state sheet resistances of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-12 F. N. Womack , D. P. Young , D. A. Browne , G. Catelani , J. Jiang , E. I. Meletis , P. W. Adams

Using a dual-mode STM-AFM microscope operating below 50mK we measured the Local Density of States (LDoS) along small normal wires connected at both ends to superconductors with different phases. We observe that a uniform minigap can develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Le Sueur , P. Joyez , H. Pothier , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

Despite metals are believed to be insensitive to field-effect and conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theories predict the electric field to be ineffective on conventional superconductors, a number of gating experiments showed the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Paolo Solinas , Elia Strambini , Claudio Puglia , Nadia Ligato , Francesco Giazotto

Below a certain temperature Tc (typically cryogenic), some materials lose their electric resistance R entering a superconducting state. Folowing the general trend toward a large scale integration of a greater number of electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Maciej Zgirski , Karri-Pekka Riikonen , Vladimir Touboltsev , Konstantin Arutyunov

We report the discovery of superconductivity at a pressure-induced magnetic quantum critical point in the Kondo-lattice system CeSb2, sustained up to magnetic fields that exceed the conventional Pauli limit eight-fold. Like CeRh2As2, CeSb2…

We report on an experimental investigation of the combined effect of nonequilibrium quasiparticle injection and supercurrent in superconducting aluminum wires. At low temperature, we observe the supercurrent-induced coupling of energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 P. Maier , D. Beckmann