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Optical tweezers allow the measurement of fluctuations at the nano-scale, in particular fluctuations in the end-to-end distance in single molecules. Fluctuation spectra can yield valuable information, but they can easily be contaminated by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Marco Ribezzi-Crivellari , Anna Alemany , Felix Ritort

The effect of fluctuations on the transport and thermodynamic properties of two-dimensional superconductors in a magnetic field is studied at low temperature. The fluctuation conductivity is calculated in the framework of the perturbation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor Galitski , A. I. Larkin

We study the effect of dissipation on quantum phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors. Dissipation, arising from a nonzero low frequency optical conductivity which has been measured in experiments below $T_c$, has two effects: (1) a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Benfatto , S. Caprara , C. Castellani , A. Paramekanti , M. Randeria

Recent observations have revealed the emergence of an unusual normal phase when a magnetic flux threads an ultra-thin superconducting cylinder. Moreover, with increasing temperature, the resistance rises in a series of abrupt jumps. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 G. J. Conduit , Yigal Meir

Superfluidity and superconductivity have been studied widely since the last century in many different contexts ranging from nuclear matter to atomic quantum gases. The rigidity of these systems with respect to external perturbations results…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 A. Paris-Mandoki , J. Shearring , F. Mancarella , T. M. Fromhold , A. Trombettoni , P. Krüger

We report a systematic experimental study of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in superconductor/normal/superconductor (SNS) devices Nb/InAs-nanowire/Nb. These fluctuations far exceed their value in the normal state and strongly depend on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 T. S. Jespersen , M. L. Polianski , C. B. Soerensen , K. Flensberg , J. Nygaard

Monolayer semiconductors hold great potential for nanoscale electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. Excitons dominate their optical properties. As their electric fields extend outside the monolayer, they are sensitive to their…

It is shown that nanoparticles made of low $T_c$ superconductors have large diamagnetic response at temperatures several orders of magnitude above $T_c$. Most features of the recently observed Giant diamagnetism of Au nanorods are explained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yoseph Imry

The fluctuation-diamagnetism (FD) above the superconducting transition was measured in 2H-NbSe2 single crystals. The moderate uniaxial anisotropy of this compound, and some experimental improvements, allowed to measure the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Soto , H. Berger , L. Cabo , C. Carballeira , J. Mosqueira , D. Pavuna , F. Vidal

We study a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction in an environment with intrinsic incoherent fluctuations which couple to the junction through an electromagnetic field. When the temperature of the junction differs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-04 Juha Voutilainen , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We study the effect of superconducting fluctuations on the longitudinal and the transverse (Hall) conductivity in homogeneously disordered films. Our calculation is based on the Usadel equation in the real-time formulation. We adjust this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-29 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Georg Schwiete , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We analyze the anomalies of superconducting state (s and d-wave pairing) in a simple model of pseudogap state, induced by fluctuations of short - range order (e.g. antiferromagnetic), based on the model Fermi surface with "hot patches". We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Z. Kuchinskii , M. V. Sadovskii

Based on recent experimental results for electron-doped cuprate oxides and ferromagnetic superconductors, it is shown that antiferromagnetic fluctuations always develop in the superconducting phase of both low- and high-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-03 Fedor V. Prigara

We present a microscopic study of the quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter in thin homogeneous superconducting wires at all temperatures below $T_C$. The rate of quantum phase slip processes determines the resistance…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei D. Zaikin , Dmitrii S. Golubev , Anne van Otterlo , Gergely T. Zimanyi

Polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering was used to measure the wave vector- and frequency-dependent magnetic fluctuations in the normal state (from the superconducting transition temperature, T_c=35, up to 350 K) of single crystals of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Aeppli , T. E. Mason , S. M. Hayden , H. A. Mook , J. Kulda

Starting from the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional, we discuss how the presence of two order parameters and the coupling between them influence a superconducting ring in the fluctuative regime. Our method is exact, but requires numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Jorge Berger , Milorad V. Milošević

We theoretically investigate quantum fluctuation of charge between even and odd states of a normal-superconducting-normal single-electron tunneling transistor. It is shown that due to the superconducting gap, the charge fluctuation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Hiroshi Imamura , Masahiko Hayashi , Hiromichi Ebisawa

We report on fluctuations in the electron system, Cooper pairs and quasiparticles, of a superconducting aluminium film. The superconductor is exposed to pair-breaking photons (1.54 THz), which are coupled through an antenna. The change in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-06 P. J. de Visser , J. J. A. Baselmans , J. Bueno , N. Llombart , T. M. Klapwijk

The observation of a strong nonlinear diamagnetic signal well above T_c in several cuprate superconductors constitutes clear evidence of the persistence of local superconducting correlations.

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-10 Steven A. Kivelson , Eduardo Fradkin

We propose here an experiment aimed to determine whether there are superconducting pairing fluctuations in the pseudogap regime of the high-$T_c$ materials. In the experimental setup, two samples above $T_c$ are brought into contact at a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Ivar Martin , Alexander Balatsky