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    Even-order nonlinear transport is a powerful probe of quantum materials, but such studies in superconductors have been limited to those which break time-reversal symmetry. Here, the authors observe second-order nonlinear transport in time-reversal-symmetric PbTaSe2, where the nonlinearity is enhanced in the superconducting state.

    • Yuki M. Itahashi
    • , Toshiya Ideue
    •  & Yoshihiro Iwasa

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    The interplay between superconductivity and competing orders in multi-layered cuprates can shed light on the nature of the superconducting pairing. Here, the authors report on the coexistence of antiferromagnetic and charge orders in different CuO2 planes in a tri-layer cuprate, pointing to a magnetically-mediated mechanism.

    • V. Oliviero
    • , S. Benhabib
    •  & C. Proust

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    Insertion of light elements in intermetallics has been explored to synthesize functional materials. Here the authors report topotactic intercalation of fluorine atoms into intermetallics using a perfluorocarbon reactant with covalent C-F bonds to obtain quantum materials.

    • Jean-Baptiste Vaney
    • , Baptiste Vignolle
    •  & Sophie Tencé

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    Understanding the rich electronic orders in cuprate superconductors provide insights into the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Here, the authors report a distinct charge order with Little-Parks like resistance oscillations at magnetic fields up to 10 T and around Tc in lightly doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x.

    • Menghan Liao
    • , Yuying Zhu
    •  & Qi-Kun Xue

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    The non-linear Meissner effect is a key manifestation of unconventional nodal superconductors but its experimental evidence has been elusive. Here, the authors observe the nonlinear Meissner effect in nodal superconductors CeCoIn5 and LaFePO.

    • J. A. Wilcox
    • , M. J. Grant
    •  & A. Carrington

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    Evidence for quantum criticality in Fe-based superconductors is still being accumulated. Here, the authors observe power-law behavior of the elastoresistivity as a function of composition in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 near a putative nematic quantum critical point, consistent with expectations for quantum criticality, while the temperature dependence near the critical doping deviates from a power law.

    • J. C. Palmstrom
    • , P. Walmsley
    •  & I. R. Fisher

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    The origin of the Fermi surface reconstruction that occurs in cuprate superconductors as hole doping increases remains unclear. Here, the authors observe long range charge density wave (CDW) order in the overdoped single-layer cuprate Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ, which then disappears above a hole concentration 0.265, suggesting a correlation between Fermi surface reconstruction and the emergence of the CDW.

    • C. C. Tam
    • , M. Zhu
    •  & S. M. Hayden

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    Phonon anomalies are commonly attributed to Fermi-surface nesting or phonon anharmonicity, but these mechanisms do not apply in all cases. Here, the authors propose a new mechanism based on electron-momentum-dependent electron-phonon coupling in the case of YNi2B2C, that could also apply to other materials.

    • Philipp Kurzhals
    • , Geoffroy Kremer
    •  & Frank Weber

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    Local variations of twist angle and strain in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can produce relevant changes in the electronic properties of the system. Here, high-resolution low energy electron microscopy is used to characterize the spatial and temporal deformations of moiré patterns in TBG at high temperatures, showing the stability of these structures up to 600 ∘C.

    • Tobias A. de Jong
    • , Tjerk Benschop
    •  & Sense Jan van der Molen

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    Despite extensive work on the superconductor-insulator transition in two-dimensional materials, the nature of the insulator is still debated. The authors report measurements and simulations of NbxSi1–x films, showing that conduction in the insulating state occurs by single charges hopping between superconducting grains.

    • V. Humbert
    • , M. Ortuño
    •  & C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi

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    The recently discovered class of kagome metals AV3Sb5, where A stands for K, Rb, Cs, has been shown to host a variety of exotic phases. Here, the authors report the two-fold rotational symmetry of superconductivity and signatures of an in-plane nematic electronic state in CsV3Sb5 under in-plane magnetic field.

    • Ying Xiang
    • , Qing Li
    •  & Hai-Hu Wen

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    The superconductor-ferromagnet interface provides a unique opportunity to study the interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism. Here, the authors build a van der Waals ferromagnetic Josephson junction evidencing a strong 0 and π phase Josephson coupling.

    • Linfeng Ai
    • , Enze Zhang
    •  & Shaoming Dong

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    The pseudogap phase in cuprate superconductors is predicted to be a pair density wave state (PDW) but experimental evidence has been lacking. Here, the authors detect the temperature evolution of energy gap modulations and scattering interference signature suggesting the Bi2Sr2CaDyCu2O8 pseudogap phase contains a PDW.

    • Shuqiu Wang
    • , Peayush Choubey
    •  & J. C. Séamus Davis

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    A space-time crystal (STC) is a nonequilibrium phase of matter displaying long-range order in both space and time. Here, the authors propose that the high-Tc cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x is a candidate of a classical discrete STC, when a parametric modulation periodic in time and uniform in space is applied.

    • Reinhold Kleiner
    • , Xianjing Zhou
    •  & Dafei Jin

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    An enhanced superconducting pairing temperature (Tg) has only been observed in single-layer FeSe interfaced with TiOx system. Here, the authors construct a new interface composed of single-layer FeSe interfaced with LaFeO3 showing a highest Tg of 80 K among all-known interfacial superconductors.

    • Yuanhe Song
    • , Zheng Chen
    •  & Donglai Feng

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    Strontium Ruthenate, Sr2RuO4, displays a remarkable number of intriguing physical phenomena, from superconductivity, to strain-induced ferromagnetism. Here, using low-energy muon spectroscopy, Fittipaldi et al. demonstrate the existence of unconventional magnetism at the surface of Sr2RuO4 in its normal state and without any applied strain.

    • R. Fittipaldi
    • , R. Hartmann
    •  & A. Di Bernardo

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    Superconductivity reported in metals driven away from equilibrium via optical pumping has been proposed to arise from nonlinear coupling between electrons and optically excited phonons. The authors use an exact approach to show that here, disorder, which disfavors superconductivity, emerges even though the system is translationally invariant.

    • John Sous
    • , Benedikt Kloss
    •  & Andrew J. Millis

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    Several hydrides have been observed high-Tc superconductivity under pressure, but a physical-chemical understanding of the properties enhancing Tc is still lacking. Here, the authors propose a magnitude named as networking value, combined with hydrogen fraction and the contribution of hydrogen to the density of states at Fermi level, can predict Tc of all hydrogen-based compounds with an accuracy of about 60 K.

    • Francesco Belli
    • , Trinidad Novoa
    •  & Ion Errea

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    Superconductivity in FeSe attracted great interests to understand the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. Here, the authors report a pressure induced superconductivity with a highest Tc of ~9 K in MnSe.

    • T. L. Hung
    • , C. H. Huang
    •  & T. K. Lee

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    Van der Waals structures provide a new platform to explore novel physics of superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces. Here, NbSe2 Josephson junction with Cr2Ge2Te6 enables non-trivial Josephson phase by spin-dependent interaction, boosting the study of superconducting states with spin-orbit coupling and phase-controlled quantum electronic device.

    • H. Idzuchi
    • , F. Pientka
    •  & P. Kim

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    The discovery of high temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds stimulates further extensive studies. Here, the authors report superconductivity in pressurized yttrium-hydrogen system with highest predicted Tc among binary compounds.

    • Panpan Kong
    • , Vasily S. Minkov
    •  & Mikhail I. Eremets

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    Whether the electronic nematicity is related to electronic pairing in strongly hole-doped iron-based superconductors remains controversial. Here, the authors perform transport measurements on AFe2As2 (A = K, Rb, Cs) superconductors under elastic strain, and find no indication of a nematic ordered state.

    • P. Wiecki
    • , M. Frachet
    •  & A. E. Böhmer

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    Bound states in superconducting vortices are expected to exhibit an electron-hole asymmetry, but it is usually tiny and can be easily washed out. Here, the authors show that the vortex bound states coupling to magnetic impurities provides an axial electron-hole asymmetry on a much longer scale, and that the direction of the asymmetry depends on the band character of the superconducting material.

    • Sunghun Park
    • , Víctor Barrena
    •  & Hermann Suderow

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    Understanding the strange metal behavior, characterized by linear-in-temperature resistivity, could shed light on the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity. Here, by using electrical resistivity measurements into the micro-Kelvin regime, the authors report evidence of unconventional superconductivity in the strange metal YbRh2Si2 and propose a possible pairing mechanism.

    • D. H. Nguyen
    • , A. Sidorenko
    •  & S. Paschen

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    Despite the discovery of Majorana zero modes (MZM) in iron-based superconductors, sample inhomogeneity may destroy MZMs during braiding. Here, authors observe MZM in impurity-assisted vortices due to tuning of the bulk Dirac fermions in a homogeneous superconductor LiFeAs.

    • Lingyuan Kong
    • , Lu Cao
    •  & Hong Ding

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    Two possible scenarios of the superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4 remain difficult to distinguish. Here, the authors observe that the onset temperature of time reversal symmetry breaking tracks the superconducting transition temperature in Sr2RuO4, supporting a dxz ± idyz order parameter.

    • Vadim Grinenko
    • , Debarchan Das
    •  & Rustem Khasanov

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    Charge ordering and superconductivity are known to compete in layered cuprates; however, precise real-space characterization of their interplay has been lacking. Here, the authors address this using atomically-resolved cross-sectional scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy on cryogenically cleaved YBa2Cu3O6.81.

    • Chun-Chih Hsu
    • , Bo-Chao Huang
    •  & Ya-Ping Chiu

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    The Hall effect has been used as a probe of the normal state of cuprates, when superconductivity is supressed by a magnetic field. Here, the authors report the vanishing of the Hall coefficient at high magnetic field in cuprates with stripe order and interpret it as a signature of the stripe-ordered phase.

    • Zhenzhong Shi
    • , P. G. Baity
    •  & Dragana Popović

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    Superconductivity is often destroyed under magnetic field larger than a critical value called Pauli limit. Here, the authors report superconductivity beyond the Pauli limit in bulk single crystals of NbS2, suggesting the development of a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state.

    • Chang-woo Cho
    • , Jian Lyu
    •  & Rolf Lortz

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    Superconductivity often appears due to suppression of competing electronic orders. Here, the authors present a contrary example showing a superconducting dome inside the parent phase with a stripe charge order in IrTe2 nanoflakes and identify their unusual superconducting properties.

    • Sungyu Park
    • , So Young Kim
    •  & Jun Sung Kim

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    Here, Pelliciari et al. present resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on monolayer samples of unconventional superconductor FeSe, finding evidence for gapped and dispersionless spin excitations. These experiments are very difficult due to the extremely small scattering volume of the FeSe monolayer.

    • Jonathan Pelliciari
    • , Seher Karakuzu
    •  & Riccardo Comin

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    Previous work on critical scaling at the superconductor-to-insulator transition has shown variations across different materials. Here, the authors use a space charge doping technique to tune the transition in a single layer cuprate sample and present evidence of the universal scaling behaviour.

    • Fang Wang
    • , Johan Biscaras
    •  & Abhay Shukla

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    Topological superconductors are potentially important for future quantum computation, but they are very rare in nature. Here, the authors observe topological surface states acquiring a nodeless superconducting gap with similar magnitude as that of the bulk states in 2M-WS2, suggesting an intrinsic topological superconductor.

    • Y. W. Li
    • , H. J. Zheng
    •  & Y. L. Chen

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    Background radiation has been identified as a key factor limiting the coherence times of superconducting circuits. Here, the authors measure the impact of environmental and cosmic radiation on a superconducting resonator with varying degrees of shielding, including an underground facility.

    • L. Cardani
    • , F. Valenti
    •  & I. M. Pop

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    A recent report on electrostatic field effect in superconducting devices provides a high potential for advanced quantum technology, but it remains controversial. Here, the authors report that the suppression of critical current, which was attributed to the field effect, can instead be explained by quasiparticle excitations in the constriction of superconducting devices.

    • I. Golokolenov
    • , A. Guthrie
    •  & V. Tsepelin

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    Chiral superconductors are predicted to realize Majorana normal fluid at its boundary, but remain elusive experimentally. Here, Bae et al. report anomalous surface normal fluid response in UTe2 single crystal which is further attributed to a chiral spin-triplet pairing state.

    • Seokjin Bae
    • , Hyunsoo Kim
    •  & Steven M. Anlage

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    A superconducting diode is dissipationless and desirable for electronic circuits with ultralow power consumption, yet it remains challenging to realize it. Here, the authors achieve a superconducting diode in a conventional superconducting film patterned with a conformal array of nanoscale holes.

    • Yang-Yang Lyu
    • , Ji Jiang
    •  & Wai-Kwong Kwok

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