The 2021 room-temperature superconductivity roadmap

B Lilia, R Hennig, P Hirschfeld, G Profeta… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing materials with advanced functionalities is the main focus of contemporary solid-
state physics and chemistry. Research efforts worldwide are funneled into a few high-end …

Probing topological quantum matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy

JX Yin, SH Pan, M Zahid Hasan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The search for topological phases of matter is evolving towards strongly interacting systems,
including magnets and superconductors, where exotic effects emerge from the quantum …

Isospin magnetism and spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene

H Zhou, L Holleis, Y Saito, L Cohen, W Huynh… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In conventional superconductors, Cooper pairing occurs between electrons of opposite spin.
We observe spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene when doped to a …

Pauli-limit violation and re-entrant superconductivity in moiré graphene

Y Cao, JM Park, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Moiré quantum matter has emerged as a materials platform in which correlated and
topological phases can be explored with unprecedented control. Among them, magic-angle …

Field-induced transition within the superconducting state of CeRh2As2

S Khim, JF Landaeta, J Banda, N Bannor, M Brando… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Materials with multiple superconducting phases are rare. Here, we report the discovery of
two-phase unconventional superconductivity in CeRh2As2. Using thermodynamic probes …

Chiral superconductivity in heavy-fermion metal UTe2

L Jiao, S Howard, S Ran, Z Wang, JO Rodriguez… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Spin-triplet superconductors are condensates of electron pairs with spin 1 and an odd-parity
wavefunction. An interesting manifestation of triplet pairing is the chiral p-wave state, which …

Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires

G Wang, T Dvir, GP Mazur, CX Liu, N van Loo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

An organic host–guest system producing room‐temperature phosphorescence at the parts‐per‐billion level

B Chen, W Huang, X Nie, F Liao, H Miao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulation of long‐lived triplet excitons in organic molecules is key to applications
including next‐generation optoelectronics, background‐free bioimaging, information …

Single thermodynamic transition at 2 K in superconducting UTe2 single crystals

PFS Rosa, A Weiland, SS Fender, BL Scott… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
UTe2 is a newly-discovered unconventional superconductor wherein multicomponent
topological superconductivity is anticipated based on the presence of two superconducting …

Multicomponent superconducting order parameter in UTe2

IM Hayes, DS Wei, T Metz, J Zhang, YS Eo, S Ran… - Science, 2021 - science.org
An unconventional superconducting state was recently discovered in uranium ditelluride
(UTe2), in which spin-triplet superconductivity emerges from the paramagnetic normal state …