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    | Open Access

    We provide evidence for superconducting topological Fermi arcs in PbBi2—a Weyl semimetal previously studied mostly for its bulk properties—from which Marjorama fermions could be derived for research in quantum computers.

    • Andrii Kuibarov
    • , Oleksandr Suvorov
    •  & Sergey Borisenko

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Proximity-induced superconductivity on a single spin-degenerate quantum level of a surface state confined in a quantum corral on a superconducting substrate built atom by atom by a scanning tunnelling microscope is investigated.

    • Lucas Schneider
    • , Khai That Ton
    •  & Jens Wiebe

  • Article |

    A moiré quasicrystal constructed by twisting three layers of graphene with two different twist angles shows high tunability between a periodic-like regime at low energies and a strongly quasiperiodic regime at higher energies alongside strong interactions and superconductivity.

    • Aviram Uri
    • , Sergio C. de la Barrera
    •  & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Article |

    By moving to a substrate that better stabilizes conditions, the doping series of Nd1–xSrxNiO2 is synthesized free from extended defects, resulting in enhancement of superconductivity in terms of transition temperature and range of doping.

    • Kyuho Lee
    • , Bai Yang Wang
    •  & Harold Y. Hwang

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    Measurements show that smectic pair-density-wave order exists in the magnetic iron pnictide superconductor EuRbFe4As4 and that the pair-density-wave state is a primary, zero-field superconducting state in this compound.

    • He Zhao
    • , Raymond Blackwell
    •  & Kazuhiro Fujita

  • Article |

    The primary pair density wave state has been discovered in a monolayer iron-based high-Tc superconductor, providing a platform to study the interplay between the correlated electronic states and unconventional Cooper pairing in high-Tc superconductors.

    • Yanzhao Liu
    • , Tianheng Wei
    •  & Jian Wang

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A spin-triplet pair density wave is discovered in the candidate topological superconductor UTe2 using superconductive scanning tunnelling microscopy tips.

    • Qiangqiang Gu
    • , Joseph P. Carroll
    •  & Xiaolong Liu

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    A study using scanning tunnelling microscopy reveals a charge-density-wave state that is sensitive to magnetic fields and strongly intertwined with superconductivity in the heavy-fermion triplet superconductor UTe2.

    • Anuva Aishwarya
    • , Julian May-Mann
    •  & Vidya Madhavan

  • Article |

    The discovery of an orbital Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in the multilayer Ising superconductor 2H-NbSe2, in which the translational and rotational symmetries are broken, enables the preparation of such states in other materials with broken inversion symmetries.

    • Puhua Wan
    • , Oleksandr Zheliuk
    •  & Jianting Ye

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Nitrogen-doped lutetium hydrides LuH2±xNy synthesized using a high-pressure and high-temperature synthesis technique did not show near-ambient superconductivity at pressures below 40.1 GPa.

    • Xue Ming
    • , Ying-Jie Zhang
    •  & Hai-Hu Wen

  • Article
    | Open Access

    By using millikelvin scanning tunnelling microscopy to study atomically flat terraces on U-terminated surfaces of the heavy-fermion superconductor URu2Si2, the two-dimensional heavy fermions are shown to form quantum-well states on the surface.

    • Edwin Herrera
    • , Isabel Guillamón
    •  & Hermann Suderow

  • Article
    | Open Access

    By analysing atomic-scale Pb–Pb Josephson junctions including magnetic atoms in a scanning tunnelling microscope, a new mechanism for diode behaviour is demonstrated, opening up new paths to tune their properties by means of single-atom manipulation.

    • Martina Trahms
    • , Larissa Melischek
    •  & Katharina J. Franke

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    In optimally doped Nd0.8Sr0.2NiO2H epitaxial film, combined state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical approaches show abundant hydrogen with zero resistivity, and its critical role in superconductivity in epitaxial infinite-layer nickelates.

    • Xiang Ding
    • , Charles C. Tam
    •  & Liang Qiao

  • Article |

    A minimal artificial Kitaev chain can be realized by using two spin-polarized quantum dots in an InSb nanowire strongly coupled by both elastic co-tunnelling and crossed Andreev reflection.

    • Tom Dvir
    • , Guanzhong Wang
    •  & Leo P. Kouwenhoven

  • Article |

    Placing monolayer tungsten diselenide on Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene promotes enhanced superconductivity, indicating that proximity-induced spin–orbit coupling plays a key role in stabilizing the pairing, paving the way for engineering tunable, ultra-clean graphene-based superconductors.

    • Yiran Zhang
    • , Robert Polski
    •  & Stevan Nadj-Perge

  • Article |

    The authors show a hysteretic behaviour of superconductivity as a function of electric field in bilayer Td-MoTe2, representing observations of coupled ferroelectricity and superconductivity.

    • Apoorv Jindal
    • , Amartyajyoti Saha
    •  & Daniel A. Rhodes

  • Review Article |

    Recent key developments in the exploration of kagome materials are reviewed, including fundamental concepts of a kagome lattice, realizations of Chern and Weyl topological magnetism, flat-band many-body correlations, and unconventional charge-density waves and superconductivity.

    • Jia-Xin Yin
    • , Biao Lian
    •  & M. Zahid Hasan

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    The evolution of CDW and superconductivity with pressure in CsV3Sb5 by 51V NMR measurements shed new light on the interplay of superconductivity and CDW, revealing new electronic correlation effects in kagome superconductors AV3Sb5.

    • Lixuan Zheng
    • , Zhimian Wu
    •  & Xianhui Chen

  • Article |

    An alternating stack of a candidate spin liquid and a superconductor shows a spontaneous vortex phase in the superconducting state without magnetism in the normal state. This indicates the presence of  unconventional magnetic ordering independent of the superconductor.

    • Eylon Persky
    • , Anders V. Bjørlig
    •  & Beena Kalisky

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The phase diagram of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 in both normal and superconducting states is mapped out using high-precision measurements of the elastocaloric effect, showing similarities to other unconventional superconductors as well as unique features.

    • You-Sheng Li
    • , Markus Garst
    •  & Andrew P. Mackenzie

  • Article |

    A Josephson diode is made by fabricating an inversion symmetry breaking van der Waals heterostructure of NbSe2/Nb3Br8/NbSe2, demonstrating that even without a magnetic field, the junction can be superconducting with a positive current but resistive with a negative current.

    • Heng Wu
    • , Yaojia Wang
    •  & Mazhar N. Ali

  • Article |

    Precise quantitative scaling laws are observed between the normalized T-linear coefficient and Tc among copper oxides, pnictides and a class of organic superconductors, suggesting a common underlying physics at work in these unconventional superconductors.

    • Jie Yuan
    • , Qihong Chen
    •  & Zhongxian Zhao

  • Article |

    A high-precision angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study on the superconductor Bi2212 resolves the spectroscopic singularity associated with the superconducting transition temperature, and indicates that the transition is driven by phase fluctuations.

    • Su-Di Chen
    • , Makoto Hashimoto
    •  & Zhi-Xun Shen

  • Article |

    Strange metallicity—in particular, resistance that is linear in temperature and magnetic field—is observed in a nanopatterned YBa2Cu3O7−δ bosonic system.

    • Chao Yang
    • , Haiwen Liu
    •  & Yanrong Li

  • Article |

    A study reveals a temperature-dependent cascade of different symmetry-broken electronic states in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, and highlights intriguing parallels between vanadium-based kagome metals and materials exhibiting similar electronic phases.

    • He Zhao
    • , Hong Li
    •  & Ilija Zeljkovic

  • Article |

    A study reports unconventional superconductivity and a pair density wave in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, and provides a basis for understanding the microscopic origin of correlated electronic states and superconductivity in vanadium-based kagome metals.

    • Hui Chen
    • , Haitao Yang
    •  & Hong-Jun Gao

  • Article |

    Superconductivity is observed in rhombohedral trilayer graphene in the absence of a moiré superlattice, with two distinct superconducting states both occurring at a symmetry-breaking transition where the Fermi surface degeneracy changes.

    • Haoxin Zhou
    • , Tian Xie
    •  & Andrea F. Young

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