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Short dephasing times pose one of the main challenges in realizing a quantum computer. Different approaches have been devised to cure this problem for superconducting qubits, a prime example being the operation of such devices at optimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-14 Jens Koch , Terri M. Yu , Jay Gambetta , A. A. Houck , D. I. Schuster , J. Majer , Alexandre Blais , M. H. Devoret , S. M. Girvin , R. J. Schoelkopf

Edge-contacted superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junction have been utilized to realize topological superconductivity, which have shown superconducting signatures in the quantum Hall regime. We perform the first-principles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-07 Yeonghun Lee , Jeongwoon Hwang , Fan Zhang , Kyeongjae Cho

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect is markedly influenced by graphene unique electronic…

A new technique is presented which enables the fabrication of highly transparent Josephson junctions in combination with mesoscopic devices. We utilize a modified AFM tip to plough grooves into superconducting material, thus defining a weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Irmer , F. Simmel , R. H. Blick , H. Lorenz , J. P. Kotthaus , M. Bichler , W. Wegscheider

This paper presents the fabrication and characterization of superconducting qubit components from titanium nitride (TiN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) layers to create Josephson junctions and superconducting resonators in an all-nitride…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Benedikt Schoof , Moritz Singer , Simon Lang , Harsh Gupta , Daniela Zahn , Johannes Weber , Marc Tornow

We investigate electronic transport in single layer graphene coupled to superconducting electrodes. In these Josephson transistors, we observe significant suppression in the critical current Ic and large variation in the product IcRn in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Feng Miao , Wenzhong Bao , Hang Zhang , Chun Ning Lau

Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid materials have been extensively used for experiments on electrically tunable quantum devices. Notably, Josephson junctions utilizing nanowire weak links have enabled a number of new gate-tunable qubits,…

The tunability of superconducting magic-angle twisted-layer graphene films elevates this material system to a promising candidate for superconducting electronics. We implement a gate-tuned Josephson junction in a magic-angle twisted…

The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

Superconducting protected qubits aim to achieve sufficiently low error rates so as to allow realization of error-corrected, utility-scale quantum computers. A recent proposal encodes a protected qubit in the quasicharge degree of freedom of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Nicholas M. Christopher , Deniz E. Stiegemann , Abhijeet Alase , Thomas M. Stace

We propose an analytical device model for a graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor (GNR-FET). The GNR-FET under consideration is based on a heterostructure which consists of an array of nanoribbons clad between the highly conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ryzhii , A. Satou , V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji

Graphene-based electromechanical resonators have attracted much interest recently because of the outstanding mechanical and electrical properties of graphene and their various applications. However, the coupling between mechanical motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Gang Luo , Zhuo-Zhi Zhang , Guang-Wei Deng , Hai-ou Li , Gang Cao , Ming Xiao , Guoping Guo , Guang-Can Guo

Qubits constructed from uncoupled Majorana fermions are protected from decoherence, but to perform a quantum computation this topological protection needs to be broken. Parity-protected quantum computation breaks the protection in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 F. Hassler , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

A blueprint for producing scalable digital graphene electronics has remained elusive. Current methods to produce semiconducting-metallic graphene networks all suffer from either stringent lithographic demands that prevent reproducibility,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Hicks , A. Tejeda , A. Taleb-Ibrahimi , M. S. Nevius , F. Wang , K. Shepperd , J. Palmer , F. Bertran , P. Le Fèvre , J. Kunc , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad

We review the main theoretical and experimental results for the transmon, a superconducting charge qubit derived from the Cooper pair box. The increased ratio of the Josephson to charging energy results in an exponential suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 A. A. Houck , Jens Koch , M. H. Devoret , S. M. Girvin , R. J. Schoelkopf

Superconducting qubit fabrication innovations continue to be explored to achieve higher performance. Despite improvements to base layer fabrication and processing, resist-based Josephson junction (JJ) schemes have largely remained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Tathagata Banerjee , Stephen Daniel Funni , Saswata Roy , Judy J. Cha , Valla Fatemi

Josephson tunnel junctions are the centerpiece of almost any superconducting electronic circuit, including qubits. Typically, the junctions for qubits are fabricated using shadow evaporation techniques to reduce dielectric loss…

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

We report on the fabrication and electrical transport properties of superconducting junctions made of \beta-Ag$_{2}$Se topological insulator (TI) nanowires in contact with Al superconducting electrodes. The temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jihwan Kim , Bum-Kyu Kim , Hong-Seok Kim , Ahreum Hwang , Bongsoo Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a unique platform to study unconventional superconductivity, owing to the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and a remarkable stability to an in-plane magnetic field. A recent study found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-29 Ranjani Seshadri , Maxim Khodas , Dganit Meidan