We investigate whether by synthesising superconductors that are tuned to atopological, node-reconstruction transition point we could createsuperconducting wires that are intrinsically resilient to quenches. Recent workshows that the exponent characterising the temperature dependence of thespecific heat of a nodal superconductor is lowered over a region of the phasediagram near topological transitions where nodal lines form or reconnect. Ouridea is that the resulting enhancement of the low-temperature specific heatcould have potential application in the prevention of superconductor quenches.We perform numerical simulations of a simplified superconductor quench model.Results show that decreasing the specific heat exponent can prevent a quenchfrom occurring and improve quench resilience, though in our simple model theeffects are small. Further work will be necessary to establish the practicalfeasibility of this approach.
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