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cond-mat.supr-con2026

Multigap superconductivity in Ising superconductors: The case of (LaSe)1.14(NbSe2)m misfit layer compounds

Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Tomas Samuely, Ludovica Zullo +14

Strong spin-orbit coupling and broken inversion symmetry in transition metal dichalcogenides give rise to Ising superconductivity, a spin-protected pairing state first identified i…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Doping-controlled topological superconducting transition in misfit layer compounds

Hugo Le Du, Robin Salvatore, Justine Cordiez +12

Achieving topological superconductivity is a key goal in quantum physics, offering a path to fault-tolerant quantum computers. A central challenge in this field is to continuously…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Doping tunable charge density waves in misfit layer compounds

Hugo Le Du, Ludovica Zullo, Justine Cordiez +14

The ability to tune charge density waves (CDWs) through external control knobs, such as doping, pressure or strain is crucial for exploring the phase diagram of two dimensional (2D…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Antiferromagnetic stripe phase and large-gap insulating ground state of the correlated ~R30-Sn/Si(111) single atomic layer

Mohammadmehdi Torkzadeh, Mattia Iannetti, Mathieu Lizée +10

The one-third monolayer Sn layer on Si(111) has long been considered a benchmark system for exploring two-dimensional Mott physics, owing to its narrow bandwidth and sizable on-sit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer

Mathieu Lizée, Mohammadmehdi Torkzadeh, François Debontridder +4

Anderson localization is predicted to enhance the critical temperature of disordered superconductors. Despite a huge body of theoretical work based on non-linear sigma models, expe…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconducting and spin-density wave phases probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy in the organic conductor

Mohammadmehdi Torkzadeh, Pascale Senzier, Claude Bourbonnais +9

By scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) we have probed the local quasi-particle density of states (DOS) of the Bechgaard salt organic superconductor in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Higher order topological defects in a moiré lattice

Eugenio Gambari, Sebastian Meyer, Sacha Guesne +8

Topological defects are ubiquitous, they manifest in a wide variety of systems such as liquid crystals, magnets or superconductors. The recent quest for nonabelian anyons in conden…

cond-mat.str-el2022

On the importance of measuring accurately LDOS maps using scanning tunneling spectroscopy in materials presenting atom-dependent charge order: the case of the correlated Pb/Si(111) single atomic layer

C. Tresca, T. Bilgeri, G. Menard +11

We show how to properly extract the local charge order in two-dimensional materials from scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) measurements. When the charge order pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 44 cited

Misfit layer compounds: a platform for heavily-doped two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Raphaël T. Leriche, Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Marco Campetella +14

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display a rich variety of instabilities such as spin and charge orders, Ising superconductivity and topological properties. Their physical p…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 52 cited

Spectroscopic evidence for strong correlations between local superconducting gap and local Altshuler-Aronov density-of-states suppression in ultrathin NbN films

C. Carbillet, V. Cherkez, M. A. Skvortsov +10

Disorder has different profound effects on superconducting thin films. For a large variety of materials, increasing disorder reduces electronic screening which enhances electron-el…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 67 cited

Isolated pairs of Majorana zero modes in a disordered superconducting lead monolayer

Gerbold Ménard, Andrej Mesaros, Christophe Brun +4

Majorana zero modes are fractional quantum excitations appearing in pairs, each pair being a building block for quantum computation . Some possible signatures of these excitations…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 23 cited

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states versus topological edge states in Pb/Si(111)

Gerbold C. Ménard, Christophe Brun, Raphaël Leriche +6

There is presently a tremendous activity around the field of topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions. Among the many questions raised, it has become increasingly import…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 209 cited

Two-dimensional topological superconductivity in Pb/Co/Si(111)

Gerbold C. Ménard, Sébastien Guissart, Christophe Brun +7

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-en…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 55 cited

Confinement of superconducting fluctuations due to emergent electronic inhomogeneities

C. Carbillet, S. Caprara, M. Grilli +11

The microscopic nature of an insulating state in the vicinity of a superconducting state, in the presence of disorder, is a hotly debated question. While the simplest scenario prop…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 225 cited

Long range coherent magnetic bound states in superconductors

Gerbold C. Ménard, Sébastien Guissart, Christophe Brun +9

The quantum coherent coupling of completely different degrees of freedom is a challenging path towards creating new functionalities for quantum electronics. Usually the antagonisti…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 66 cited

Proximity effect between two superconductors spatially resolved by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

V. Cherkez, J. C. Cuevas, C. Brun +5

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the proximity effect in an atomic-scale controlled junction between two different superconductors. Elaborated on a Si(11…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 78 cited

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy study of the proximity effect in a disordered two-dimensional metal

L. Serrier-Garcia, J. C. Cuevas, T. Cren +6

The proximity effect between a superconductor and a highly diffusive two-dimensional metal was revealed in a Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy experiment. The in-situ elaborated samp…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 163 cited

Remarkable effects of disorder on superconductivity of single atomic layers of lead on silicon

C. Brun, T. Cren, V. Cherkez +8

In bulk materials superconductivity is remarkably robust with respect to non-magnetic disorder. In the two-dimensional limit however, the quantum condensate suffers from the effect…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 1 cited

Break-up of long-range coherence due to phase fluctuations in ultrathin superconducting NbN films

Y. Noat, T. Cren, C. Brun +7

Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), we address the problem of the superconductor-insulator phase transition (SIT) in homogeneously disordered ultrathin (2-15 nm) films of…

cond-mat.str-el2012

Electric pulse induced electronic patchwork in the Mott insulator GaTaSe

Vincent Dubost, Tristan Cren, François Debontridder +6

Following a recent discovery of the Insulator-to-Metal Transition induced by electric field in GaTaSe, we performed a detailed Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscop…

cond-mat.supr-con2010★ 18 cited

Disorder effects in pnictides : a tunneling spectroscopy study

Y. Noat, T. Cren, V. Dubost +6

We present the synthesis and the tunneling spectroscopy study of superconducting FeSe0.5Te0.5 (Tc = 14 K), SmFeAsO0.85 (Tc = 45 K) and SmFeAsO0.9F0.1 (Tc = 52 K). The samples were…

cond-mat.supr-con2010

Evidence for Scattering-Dependent Multigap Superconductivity in Ba8Si46

Yves Noat, Tristan Cren, Pierre Toulemonde +4

We have studied the quasiparticle excitation spectrum of the superconductor Ba8Si46 by local tunneling spectroscopy. Using high energy resolution achieved in Superconductor-Superco…