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In this letter, we present the direct loss tangent measurement of a high-resistivity intrinsic (100) silicon wafer in the temperature range from ~ 70 mK to 1 K, approaching the quantum regime. The measurement was performed using a technique…
We theoretically investigate the Seebeck and Peltier effect across an interacting quantum dot(QD) coupled between a normal metal and a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductor within the Coulomb blockade regime. Our results demonstrate that…
We report on transport measurement study of top-gated field effect transistors made out of InSb nanowires grown by chemical vapor deposition. The transistors exhibit ambipolar transport characteristics revealed by three distinguished…
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We present a microscopic derivation of the effect of current flow on a system near a superconductor-metal quantum critical point. The model studied is a 2d itinerant electron system where the electrons interact via an attractive interaction…
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