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Compact SQUID realized in a double layer graphene heterostructure

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-11-17 v1

Abstract

Two-dimensional systems that host one-dimensional helical states are exciting from the perspective of scalable topological quantum computation when coupled with a superconductor. Graphene is particularly promising for its high electronic quality, versatility in van der Waals heterostructures and its electron and hole-like degenerate 0thth Landau level. Here, we study a compact double layer graphene SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device), where the superconducting loop is reduced to the superconducting contacts, connecting two parallel graphene Josephson junctions. Despite the small size of the SQUID, it is fully tunable by independent gate control of the Fermi energies in both layers. Furthermore, both Josephson junctions show a skewed current phase relationship, indicating the presence of superconducting modes with high transparency. In the quantum Hall regime we measure a well defined conductance plateau of 2e2/he^2/h an indicative of counter propagating edge channels in the two layers. Our work opens a way for engineering topological superconductivity by coupling helical edge states, from graphene's electron-hole degenerate 0thth Landau level via superconducting contacts.

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@article{arxiv.2006.05522,
  title  = {Compact SQUID realized in a double layer graphene heterostructure},
  author = {David I. Indolese and Paritosh Karnatak and Artem Kononov and Raphaëlle Delagrange and Roy Haller and Lujun Wang and Péter Makk and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Christian Schönenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05522},
  year   = {2020}
}

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38 pages, 12 figures

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