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The two-dimensional electron gas at the crystalline LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ (c-LAO/STO) interface has sparked large interest due to its exotic properties including an intriguing gate-tunable superconducting phase. While there is growing…

Superconducting diodes, which enable dissipationless supercurrent flow in one direction while blocking it in the reverse direction, are emerging as pivotal components for superconducting electronics. The development of editable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Yishuai Wang , Wenze Pan , Meng Zhang , Yanwu Xie

The unique electronic structure found at interfaces between materials can allow unconventional quantum states to emerge. Here we observe superconductivity in electron gases formed at interfaces between (111) oriented KTaO$_3$ and insulating…

The two-dimensional electron system found between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 hosts a variety of physical phenomena that can be tuned through external stimuli. This allows for electronic devices controlling magnetism, spin-orbit coupling, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-01 Anders V. Bjørlig , Dennis V. Christensen , Ricci Erlandsen , Nini Pryds , Beena Kalisky

We have investigated electrical transport in a diffusive multiwalled carbon nanotube contacted using superconducting leads made of Al/Ti sandwich structure. We find proximity-induced superconductivity with measured critical currents up to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Tsuneta , L. Lechner , P. J. Hakonen

SrTiO$_3$-based heterointerfaces support quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electron systems that are analogous to III-V semiconductor heterostructures, but also possess superconducting, magnetic, spintronic, ferroelectric, and ferroelastic degrees…

Quantum confinement in a thin-film geometry offers viable routes for tuning the critical properties of superconductors through modification of both density of states and pairing interaction. Low-density systems like doped strontium titanate…

Superconductivity and magnetism are mutually exclusive in most alloys and elements, so it is striking that superconductivity emerges around a magnetic quantum critical point (QCP) in many strongly correlated electron systems (SCES). In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-12 J. F. Landaeta , D. Subero , D. Catalá , S. V. Taylor , N. Kimura , R. Settai , Y. Ōnuki , M. Sigrist , I. Bonalde

Superconductors and semiconductors are crucial platforms in the field of quantum computing. They can be combined to hybrids, bringing together physical properties that enable the discovery of new emergent phenomena and provide novel…

We study the quantization of the supercurrent and conductance of a superconducting quantum point contact (SQPC) in a superconductor-two dimensional electrongas-superconductor (S-2DEG-S) Josephson junction with a split gate. The supercurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Bauch , E. Huerfeld , V. M. Krasnov , P. Delsing , H. Takayanagi , T. Akazaki

Superconductivity develops in bulk doped SrTiO$_3$ and at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface with a dome-shaped density dependence of the critical temperature $T_c$, despite different dimensionalities and geometries. We propose that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-22 D. Valentinis , S. Gariglio , A. Fête , J. -M. Triscone , C. Berthod , D. van der Marel

The prospect of coupling a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructure to a superconductor opens new research and technology opportunities, including fundamental problems in mesoscopic superconductivity, scalable superconducting…

Recently superconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 has been tuned with the electric field effect to an unprecedented range of transition temperatures. Here we perform a detailed finite size scaling analysis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-17 T. Schneider , A. D. Caviglia , S. Gariglio , N. Reyren , 2 , J. -M. Triscone

Two-dimensional electron gases in SrTiO3-based heterostructures provide a platform to study the real-time evolution of the macroscopic state with a variation of the carrier density, and the impact of structural properties on the emergence…

In doped SrTiO$_{3}$ superconductivity persists down to an exceptionally low concentration of mobile electrons. This restricts the relevant energy window and possible pairing scenarios. We present a study of quantum oscillations and…

Caviglia et al. [Nature (London) 456, 624 (2008)] have found that the superconducting LaAlO_3 / SrTiO_3 interface can be gate modulated. A central issue is to determine the principal effect of the applied electric field. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Bell , S. Harashima , Y. Kozuka , M. Kim , B. G. Kim , Y. Hikita , H. Y. Hwang

The nature of superconductivity in the dilute semiconductor SrTiO$_3$ has remained an open question for more than 50 years. The extremely low carrier densities ($10^{18}$ - $10^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$) at which superconductivity occurs suggests an…

A superconducting phase with an extremely low carrier density of the order of 10^13 cm^-2 is present at LaAlO3-SrTiO3 interfaces. If depleted from charge carriers by means of a gate field, this superconducting phase undergoes a transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Fillis-Tsirakis , C. Richter , J. Mannhart , H. Boschker

We report low-temperature, high-field magnetotransport measurements of SrTiO3 gated by an ionic gel electrolyte. A saturating resistance upturn and negative magnetoresistance that signal the emergence of the Kondo effect appear for higher…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Menyoung Lee , J. R. Williams , Sipei Zhang , C. Daniel Frisbie , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Contacts between high critical field superconductors and semiconductor nanowires are important in the context of topological quantum circuits in which superconductivity must be sustained to high magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Zhaoen Su , Azarin Zarassi , Binh-Minh Nguyen , Jinkyoung Yoo , Shadi A. Dayeh , Sergey M. Frolov