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Zichen Huang

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arXiv2025

Tuning Bound States of Symmetry-Breaking Vortices via Unidirectional Charge Density Wave in a Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Superconductor

The interplay between charge density wave (CDW) and superconducting vortex bound states are crucial for fundamental physics of superconductivity and advancing quantum nanotechnologies. However, the CDW-mediated modulation of vortex bound states, which opens up a new platform for vortex engineering, remains unexplored. Here, we report spatially anisotropic vortex states modulated by the unidirectional CDWs in a transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor 1T''-NbTe2 using ultra-low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. The stripe-like 3x1x3 CDW order exhibits a robust three-dimensional character across step edges and coexists with superconductivity below a critical temperature of 0.4 K. Under out-of-plane magnetic fields, we observe elliptical vortices whose elongation aligns with the CDW stripes, indicating strong coupling between vortex morphology and underlying electronic order. Remarkably, CDW domain boundaries induce abrupt changes in vortex orientation and vortex bound states, enabling controllable vortex states across CDW nanodomains. These findings establish a new pathway for manipulating superconducting vortex bound states via CDW coupling.

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arXiv2025

Atomic Visualization of Bulk and Surface Superconductivity in Weyl Semimetal {\gamma}-PtBi2

A bulk superconductor hosting intrinsic surface superconductivity provides a unique platform to study Majorana bound states. The superconductor, trigonal {\gamma}-PtBi2, is a promising candidate, as surface superconducting gaps and topological surface states have been observed. However, the simultaneous presence of bulk and surface superconductivity has not been resolved. Here, we directly visualize coexisting bulk and surface superconducting gaps in trigonal PtBi2 by using ultra-low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. The bulk gap is {\Delta} ~ 0.053 meV with a critical temperature (Tc) ~ 0.5 K and a critical field below 0.01 T, accompanied by a vortex lattice and bound states, yielding a coherence length of ~200 nm. Remarkably, certain surface regions show a much larger gap of {\Delta} ~ 0.42 meV, persisting up to Tc ~ 3 K and surviving magnetic fields up to 2 T, yet lacking a static vortex lattice. This coexistence of robust surface and bulk superconductivity establishes {\gamma}-PtBi2 as a unique platform for investigating the interplay between bulk and surface Cooper pairings in superconducting topological materials.

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arXiv2025

Tomography of the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud with Velocity Features in C$_2$H $N=1-0$ spectra: A Pilot Study of Coherent Sub-structures

The C$_2$H $N=1-0$ transition was used to investigate the possible line of sight sub-structures from the dense and optically thick in $^{13}$CO $J=1-0$ regions in the Ophiuchus star forming molecular cloud. With a 0.2 K or lower noise, multi-peak spectra were obtained and then used for identifying sub-structures. There are clues, e.g., the core velocity dispersion remains unchanged with the increasing scale that this cloud has a mild thickness in the line of sight direction and a large amount of overlapping CO cores, as expected, at least two coherent layers have been found. The integrated intensity maps of these two layers are different in shape and morphology. Inferred from the point velocity dispersion, one sub-structure with a thickness of $\sim 1$ pc was found, while other substructures were more likely to be fragments.

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arXiv2025

Spatially anisotropic Kondo resonance coupled with the superconducting gap in a kagome metal

The chromium-based kagome metal CsCr3Sb5 has garnered significant interest due to its strong electron correlations, intertwined orders and potential for unconventional superconductivity under high pressure. The evolution of magnetic and superconducting interactions as the more frequently studied CsV3Sb5 is doped to CsCr3Sb5 remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of a spatially anisotropic Kondo resonance intertwined with the superconducting gap, enabled by introducing magnetic Cr impurities into the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5. The addition of dilute Cr impurities not only weakens long range charge density wave order but also produces local magnetic moments that leads to Kondo resonances. We show that the Kondo resonance forms anisotropic, ripple like spatial patterns around individual Cr atoms, breaking all local mirror symmetries. We further reveal that with the emergence of Kondo screening, the coherence peak and depth of superconducting gap with finite zero-energy conductance are enhanced. This suggests that non superconducting carriers at the Fermi surface in the parent compound participate in the Kondo effect, simultaneously screening Cr magnetic moments and increasing the superfluid density. Our findings offer an opportunity to study the interplay between superconductivity and local magnetism in kagome materials.

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arXiv2024

Decentralized Indoor Localization Based on A Sparse Gaussian Process with Reduced-Dimensional Inputs for Real-Time Sensing and Training on IoT Devices

As a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are deployed in the field, there arises huge potential of edge computing for indoor localization on those devices. Conventional indoor localization based on a centralized server with substantial computational resources, often covering a number of multistory buildings, cannot easily adapt to time-varying indoor electromagnetic environments due to its high cost of fingerprint database update and model retraining; the centralized server is also susceptible to security breaches. To address these issues, we propose a decentralized indoor localization framework, leveraging models based on a Sparse Gaussian Process with Reduced-dimensional Inputs (SGP-RI) deployed to IoT devices for a smaller service area, which can quickly adapt to time-varying indoor electromagnetic environments through real-time sensing and retraining. The experimental results based on a multibuilding, multifloor static database and a single-building, single-floor dynamic database, demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework, where the SGP-RI with less than half the training samples can produce localization performance comparable to the standard Gaussian process (GP) with the whole training samples.

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