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Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices play a crucial role in advancing quantum science and technology by merging the properties of superconductors and semiconductors. To operate these devices at high temperature, Niobium could…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-26 A. Kotsovolou , F. Soofivand , P. Singha , D. Cecca , R. Balice , F. Carillo , C. Puglia , G. De Simoni , F. Bianco , F. Paolucci

Proposals for studying topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in nanowires proximity coupled to superconductors require that transport in the nanowire is ballistic. Previous work on hybrid nanowire-superconductor systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 S. T. Gill , J. Damasco , D. Car , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , N. Mason

Recently, A. V. Boris and colleagues claimed to deduce a decrease of intraband spectral weight (SW), and a transfer of SW from intraband to inter-band frequencies, when optimally-doped or slightly underdoped cuprates become superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. Santander-Syro , N. Bontemps

We report an experimental study of proximity effect-induced superconductivity in crystalline Cu and Co nanowires and a nanogranular Co nanowire structure in contact with a superconducting W floating electrode which we call inducer. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-25 M. Kompaniiets , O. V. Dobrovolskiy , C. Neetzel , E. Begun , F. Porrati , W. Ensinger , M. Huth

In this supporting material for the main paper (the preceding submission), we show, in addition to the related information for the experiments, additional discussion that cannot fit in the main paper (due to the space constraint). It…

We report transport studies through Nb-based superconducting meander wires fabricated by focused ion beam (FIB) milling technique. The effect of meandering on quantum transport has been probed experimentally by a direct comparison with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-08 Deepika Sawle , Sudhir Husale , Sachin Yadav , Bikash Gajar , V. P. S. Awana , Sangeeta Sahoo

The recent discovery of Ising superconductivity has garnered a lot of interest due in part to the resilience of these superconductors to large in-plane magnetic fields. In this Perspective we explain the basic concepts that define the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-28 Darshana Wickramaratne , Igor I. Mazin

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is an attractive nonconventional lithographic technique in the fabrication of superconducting nanowires for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with large effective detection areas or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-20 Lu Zhao , Yirong Jin , Jie Li , Hui Deng , Hekang Li , Keqiang Huang , Limin Cui , Dongning Zheng

Quantum phase slippage (QPS) in a superconducting nanowire is a new candidate for developing a quantum bit. It has also been theoretically predicted that the occurrence of QPS significantly changes the current-phase relationship (CPR) of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Myung-Ho Bae , Robert C. Dinsmore , Thomas Aref , Matthew Brenner , Alexey Bezryadin

We describe fabrication and testing of composite flux qubits combining Nb- and Al-based superconducting circuit technology. This hybrid approach to making qubits allows for employing pi-phase shifters fabricated using well-established…

We characterize a niobium-based superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor (Nb-SQUIPT) built upon a Nb-Cu-Nb SNS weak link. The Nb-SQUIPT and SNS devices are fabricated simultaneously in two separate lithography and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-14 R. N. Jabdaraghi , J. T. Peltonen , D. S. Golubev , J. P. Pekola

Already in the first edition of this book (Barone and Paterno, "Fundamentals and Physics and Applications of the Josephson Effect", Wiley 1982), a great number of interesting and important applications for Josephson junctions were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Anton Frisk Kockum , Franco Nori

Recently there has been reinvigorated interest in the superconducting proximity effect, driven by predictions of the emergence of Majorana fermions. To help guide this search, we have developed a phenomenological model for the tunneling…

Hybrid InSb nanowire-superconductor devices are promising for investigating Majorana modes and topological quantum computation in solid-state devices. An experimental realisation of ballistic, phase-coherent superconductor-nanowire hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 S. Li , N. Kang , D. X. Fan , L. B. Wang , Y. Q. Huang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

We report a novel method for the fabrication of superconducting nanodevices based on niobium. The well-known difficulties of lithographic patterning of high-quality niobium are overcome by replacing the usual organic resist mask by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Samaddar , D. van Zanten , A. Fay , B. Sacépé , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

The comment (arXiv:2505.23490) fails to identify any scientific errors and its central arguments actually support the main conclusions of our publication [Nat. Phys. 21, 708 (2025)]. Firstly, the whole argument of the comment to try to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Junya Feng , Henry F. Legg , Mahasweta Bagchi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja , Yoichi Ando

Nano-scale superconducting quantum interference devices (nano-SQUIDS) where the weak-links are made from nano-bridges --- i.e., nano-bridge--SQUIDs (NBSs) --- are one of the most sensitive magnetometers for nano-scale magnetometry. Because…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-10 Dibyendu Hazra

We report conductance and supercurrent measurements for InAs single and parallel double quantum dot Josephson junctions contacted with Nb or NbTiN superconducting electrodes. Large superconducting gap energy, high critical field and large…

Rapid miniaturization of electronic devices and circuits demands profound understanding of fluctuation phenomena at the nanoscale. Superconducting nanowires -- serving as important building blocks for such devices -- may seriously suffer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Konstantin Yu. Arutyunov , Janne S. Lehtinen , Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We report on a theoretical study of the electronic structures of freestanding nanowires made from narrow band gap semiconductors GaSb, InSb and InAs. The nanowires are described by the eight-band k.p Hamiltonians and the band structures are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Ning Luo , Gaohua Liao , H. Q. Xu