Superconductivity
In this work, we design and characterize a 4-pixel superconducting hot-electron bolometer (HEB) based on niobium nitride (NbN), integrated with individual planar silicon nitride (Si$_3$N$_4$) waveguides. The implemented architecture enables…
InAs-on-Insulator (InAsOI) enables an effective superconducting proximity effect and extremely weak electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling, allowing precise electronic-temperature control with minimal power. Using Josephson junction thermometry,…
The superconducting diode effect (SDE) enables nonreciprocal dissipationless transport when inversion and time-reversal symmetries are simultaneously broken. Rashba nanowires proximitized by conventional s-wave superconductors provide a…
Ambient-pressure superconductivity in compressively strained bilayer nickelate films enables direct spectroscopic tests of pairing scenarios, yet how magnetism evolves with carrier doping remains largely unexplored. Here we use Ni…
In a recent preprint (arXiv:2602.19282) [1], the authors questioned the procedure we used to evaluate the demagnetization-corrected superconducting shielding volume fraction in pressurized Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates [2-5]. They further…
Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, characterized by their inherent quantum confinement, strong spin-orbit coupling, and diverse forms of symmetry breaking, provide an ideal platform for exploring novel quantum transport phenomena. This…
Nanocrystalline superconducting films offer an excellent platform to explore the interplay between disorder, granularity, and dimensionality. In this work, we investigate two series of NbxSn thin films with near-stoichiometric (x =3) and…
We theoretically investigate the charge transport in a normal metal/normal metal/superconductor junction based on semi-Dirac materials. It is shown that off-resonant circularly polarized light applied to the central normal region induces an…
Dimensionality of a physical system, conventionally an invariant geometric characteristic, fundamentally governs the universality class of phase transitions and the landscape of emergent collective phenomena. In low-dimensional or layered…
Material with metallic $\sigma$-bonding bands is expected to be a high-temperature superconductor, due to the sensitivity of $\sigma$ electrons to lattice vibration. Based on the first-principles calculations, electronic structures of…
We conceive liquid-metal-derived superconductors (LMDS) as a unified paradigm that enables the quick fabrication of superconducting materials under near-ambient conditions through introducing room-temperature liquid metals (LMs) as dynamic…
Materials with honeycomb lattice structures exhibit unique electronic properties arising from their distinctive atomic arrangements. Their weakly coupled nature facilitates modulation by external stimuli, which leads to a diverse range of…
We theoretically study nonequilibrium superconductivity in voltage-biased normal metal-superconductor-normal metal (NSN) junctions, focusing on effects of lead-coupling asymmetry and impurity scattering. Using the Keldysh Green's function…
Nitride-based superconductors represent a family of superconducting thin film materials displaying higher quality than their corresponding bare superconductor when used in devices for applications such as cosmic radiation sensing. In recent…
The Meissner effect, the expulsion of magnetic field from the interior of a metal entering the superconducting state, is arguably the most fundamental property of superconductors, discovered in 1933. The conventional theory of…
The kagome metals $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit a complex interplay between charge density wave (CDW) order and superconductivity. In this study, we use ultrafast coherent phonon spectroscopy to probe the evolution of CDW order…
Alfven's theorem states that in a perfectly conducting fluid magnetic field lines move with the fluid without dissipation. When a metal becomes superconducting in the presence of a magnetic field, magnetic field lines move from the interior…
Superconducting diodes that support nonreciprocal supercurrent flow in principle constitute attractive, non-dissipative, circuit elements for superconducting electronics. But their realization faces fundamental challenges, as conventional…
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are state-of-the-art in ultra-sensitive magnetometry; however, conventional SQUID devices are fundamentally limited by the inherently nonlinear and periodic nature of their transfer…
Cubic A15-type superconducting alloys continue to fascinate the academic and industrial fields because they mainly support the largest market for low-temperature superconducting applications and show exotic physical properties.…