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Superconducting diodes, characterized by the nonreciprocal supercurrent flow, have gained significant attention for their potential in dissipationless electronics. This study presents a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-28 Xingjun Wu , Ji-Yin Wang , Haitian Su , Shili Yan , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

Recent progress in nanotechnology has allowed to fabricate new hybrid systems where a single two-level system is coupled to a mechanical nanoresonator. In such systems the quantum nature of a macroscopic degree of freedom can be revealed…

Hybrid quantum gates have recently drawn considerable attention. They play significant roles in connecting quantum information processors with qubits of different encoding and have important applications in the transmission of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Qi-Ping Su , Yu Zhang , Chui-Ping Yang

We study spin-dependent transport through a quantum nanostructure composed of a quantum dot (QD) surrounded by a quantum nanoring. The nanostructure is side-attached to source and drain electrodes and we assume that the confining potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Barbara Kedzierska , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Elzbieta Zipper , Maciej M. Maska

Hybrid quantum circuits combine two or more physical systems, with the goal of harnessing the advantages and strengths of the different systems in order to better explore new phenomena and potentially bring about novel quantum technologies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ze-Liang Xiang , Sahel Ashhab , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

We demonstrate a fully tunable diode structure utilizing a fully suspended single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). The diode's turn-on voltage under forward bias can be continuously tuned up to 4.3 V by controlling gate voltages, which is ~6…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chang-Hua Liu , Chung-Chiang Wu , Zhaohui Zhong

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been proposed as potential building blocks for field effect transistor (FET) devices due to their quantum confinement bandgap. Here, we propose a novel GNR device concept, enabling the control of both charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Peter Vancso , Imre Hagymasi , Levente Tapaszto

Macroscopic phase coherence in superconductors enables quantum interference and phase manipulation at realistic device length scales. Numerous superconducting electronic devices are based on the modulation of the supercurrent in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 J. Hudis , J. Cochran , G. Franco-Rivera , C. S. Guzman , E. Lochner , P. Schlottman , P. Xiong , I. Chiorescu

In this work, we employ a surrogate BCS model with discrete energy levels to investigate a hybrid system comprising two quantum dots (QD1 and QD2), where QD1 is tunnel-coupled to two superconducting leads. Through exact diagonalization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Cong Li , Yiyan Wang , Bing Dong

We study a hybrid device defined in an InAs nanowire with an epitaxial Al shell that consists of a quantum dot in contact with a superconducting island. The device is electrically floating, prohibiting transport measurements, but providing…

Identifying materials and devices which offer efficient thermoelectric effects at low temperature is a major obstacle for the development of thermal management strategies for low-temperature electronic systems. Superconductors cannot offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 F. Giazotto , J. W. A. Robinson , J. S. Moodera , F. S. Bergeret

Superconducting qubits, realized by incorporating Josephson junctions into superconducting circuits, behave as artificial atoms with anharmonic energy spectra and can be precisely controlled and measured using microwave cavities within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Roson Nongthombam , Urmimala Dewan , Amarendra K. Sarma

In the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field can drive a proximitized nanowire into a topological superconducting phase. We study transport properties of such nanowires in the Coulomb blockade regime. The associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 Roman M. Lutchyn , Leonid I. Glazman

Besides striving to assemble more and more qubits in a single monolithic quantum device, taking a modular design strategy may mitigate numerous engineering challenges for achieving large-scalable quantum processors with superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Peng Zhao , Yingshan Zhang , Guangming Xue , Yirong Jin , Haifeng Yu

Hybrid quantum systems are highly promising platforms for addressing important challenges of quantum information science and quantum sensing. Their implementation, however, is technologically non-trivial, since each component typically has…

We have used a superconducting single-electron transistor as a DC-electrometer that is strongly coupled to the metal island of another transistor. With this set-up, it is possible to directly measure the charge distribution on this island.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Heij , P. Hadley , J. E. Mooij

We investigate on-chip spectral control of supercontinuum generation, taking advantage of the additional spatial degree of freedom in strongly-coupled dual-core waveguides. Using numerical integration of the multi-mode generalized nonlinear…

Superconductors are known to be excellent thermal insulators at low temperature owing to the presence of the energy gap in their density of states (DOS). In this context, the superconducting \textit{proximity effect} allows to tune the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Nadia Ligato , Federico Paolucci , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto

Surface states of a topological insulator demonstrate interesting quantum phenomena, such as the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and the quantum magnetoelectric effect. Fermi energy tuning plays a role in inducing phase transitions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Ryota Watanabe , Ryutaro Yoshimi , Kei S. Takahashi , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Masashi Kawasaki , Minoru Kawamura , Yoshinori Tokura

Singularities arise in diverse disciplines and play a key role in both exploring fundamental laws of physics and making highly-sensitive sensors. Higher-order (>3) singularities, with further improved performance, however, usually require…