Superstripes Physics, 4th Edition

A special issue of Condensed Matter (ISSN 2410-3896). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 450

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Rome International Center for Materials Science Superstripes (RICMASS), Via dei Sabelli 119A, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: synchrotron radiation research; protein fluctuations; active sites of metalloproteins; origin of life; selected molecules in prebiotic world; quantum phenomena in complex matter; quantum confinement; superstripes in complex matter; lattice complexity in transition metal oxides; high Tc superconductors; valence fluctuation materials
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Interests: high-Tc superconductivity (theory and phenomenology); multiband superconductivity; quantum size effects and shape resonances in superconductors; nanoscale superconductors; superconducting heterostructures; BCS-BEC crossover; pseudogap; superconducting fluctuations; ultracold fermions: superfluidity and BCS-BEC crossover; electron–hole superfluidity
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will publish selected papers from the Superstripes 2025 meeting due to take place on October 11–17, 2025, in Erice-Sicily, Italy.

The Superstripes & Quantum Complex Matter 2025 Erice meeting focuses on advances in new quantum materials and quantum devices in complex systems. This year, the Superstripes 2025 meeting in Erice will focus on advanced experimental methods, quantum materials, and artificial quantum devices, probing and controlling quantum mechanisms driving quantum coherence at high temperatures and superconductivity at low dimensions.

The course will cover a broad range of topics on quantum phenomena in complex matter and theory developments and experimental methods which have changed our understanding of complex quantum matter.

The meeting is dedicated to the late Mikhail Eremets who presented, at the Superstripes 2015 conference, the discovery of superconductivity with Tc = 203K in pressurized hydrogen sulfide followed by other hydrides with Tc over 250K, receiving the 2015 Ugo Fano Gold Medal with Lev Gorkov, in Rome in December 2015.

You are invited to contribute an article or review paper for possible publication in our Special Issue. Submissions will be rapidly reviewed and published shortly, if accepted.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Bianconi
Dr. Andrea Perali
Prof. Dr. Yasutomo Uemura
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Keywords

  • quantum complex matter
  • quantum phenomena
  • quantum coherence
  • superconductivity
  • X-Ray spectroscopy
  • X-Ray diffraction

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Nanoscale Lattice Heterostructure in High-Tc Superconductors
by Annette Bussmann-Holder, Jürgen Haase, Hugo Keller, Reinhard K. Kremer, Sergei I. Mukhin, Alexey P. Menushenkov, Andrei Ivanov, Alexey Kuznetsov, Victor Velasco, Steven D. Conradson, Gaetano Campi and Antonio Bianconi
Condens. Matter 2025, 10(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat10040056 - 30 Oct 2025
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Low-temperature superconductivity has been known since 1957 to be described by BCS theory for effective single-band metals controlled by the density of states at the Fermi level, very far from band edges, the electron–phonon coupling constant l, and the energy of the boson [...] Read more.
Low-temperature superconductivity has been known since 1957 to be described by BCS theory for effective single-band metals controlled by the density of states at the Fermi level, very far from band edges, the electron–phonon coupling constant l, and the energy of the boson in the pairing interaction w0, but BCS has failed to predict high-temperature superconductivity in different materials above about 23 K. High-temperature superconductivity above 35 K, since 1986, has been a matter of materials science, where manipulating the lattice complexity of high-temperature superconducting ceramic oxides (HTSCs) has driven materials scientists to grow new HTSC quantum materials up to 138 K in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8 (Hg1223) at ambient pressure and near room temperature in pressurized hydrides. This perspective covers the major results of materials scientists over the last 39 years in terms of investigating the role of lattice inhomogeneity detected in these new quantum complex materials. We highlight the nanoscale heterogeneity in these complex materials and elucidate their special role played in the physics of HTSCs. Especially, it is highlighted that the geometry of lattice and charge complex heterogeneity at the nanoscale is essential and intrinsic in the mechanism of rising quantum coherence at high temperatures. Full article
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