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Silicon (Si) is one of the most extensively studied materials owing to its significance to semiconductor science and technology. While efforts to find a new three-dimensional (3D) Si crystal with unusual properties have made some progress,…

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Superconducting circuits offer tremendous design flexibility in the quantum regime culminating most recently in the demonstration of few qubit systems supposedly approaching the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum information processing.…

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Superconducting materials hold great potential to bring radical changes for electric power and high-field magnet technology , enabling high-efficiency electric power generation, high-capacity lossless electric power transmission, small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-08 Chao Yao , Yanwei Ma

Silicon is a leading qubit platform thanks to the exceptional coherence times that can be achieved and to the available commercial manufacturing platform for integration. Building scalable quantum processing architectures relies on accurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 B. Voisin , J. Salfi , R. Rahman , S. Rogge

Superconducting qubits are solid state electrical circuits fabricated using techniques borrowed from conventional integrated circuits. They are based on the Josephson tunnel junction, the only non-dissipative, strongly non-linear circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Devoret , A. Wallraff , J. M. Martinis

Motivated by potential transformative applications of nanoelectronic circuits that incorporate superconducting elements, and by the advantages of integrating these elements in a silicon materials platform, we investigate the properties of…

Superconductor digital electronics using Josephson junctions as ultrafast switches and magnetic-flux encoding of information was proposed over 30 years ago as a sub-terahertz clock frequency alternative to semiconductor electronics based on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-03 Sergey K. Tolpygo

Since the discovery of superconductor one hundred years ago, tremendous theoretical and technological progresses have been achieved. The zero resistance and complete diamagnetism of superconducting materials promise many possibilities in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-24 Wendi Bao , Jie Zhang , Wei Rao , Jing Liu

Integrated quantum photonic applications, providing physially guaranteed communications security, sub-shot-noise measurement, and tremendous computational power, are nearly within technological reach. Silicon as a technology platform has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Joshua W. Silverstone , Damien Bonneau , Jeremy L. O'Brien , Mark G. Thompson

We review progress in the development and applications of superconducting metamaterials. The review is organized in terms of several distinct advantages and unique properties brought to the metamaterials field by superconductivity. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-30 Philipp Jung , Alexey V. Ustinov , Steven M. Anlage

A superconducting diode is an electronic device that conducts supercurrent and exhibits zero resistance primarily for one direction of applied current. Such a dissipationless diode is a desirable unit for constructing electronic circuits…

Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently solve problems in logistics, drug and material design, finance, and cybersecurity. However, millions of qubits will be necessary for correcting inevitable errors in quantum operations. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Andre Saraiva , Wee Han Lim , Chih Hwan Yang , Christopher C. Escott , Arne Laucht , Andrew S. Dzurak

Superinductors are circuit elements characterised by an intrinsic impedance in excess of the superconducting resistance quantum ($R_\text{Q}\approx6.45~$k$\Omega$), with applications from metrology and sensing to quantum computing. However,…

In 2007, type-I superconductivity in heavily boron-doped silicon carbide was discovered. The question arose, if it is possible to achieve a superconducting phase by introducing dopants different from boron. Recently, aluminum-doped silicon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Kriener , T. Muranaka , J. Akimitsu , Y. Maeno

During the past few decades, several new classes of superconductors have been discovered. Most of these do not appear to be related to traditional superconductors. As a consequence, it is felt by many that for these materials,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 M. R. Norman

Although the microscopic origin of the superconductivity in high Tc copper oxides remains the subject of active inquiry, several of their electronic characteristics are well established as universal to all the known materials, forming the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 R. E. Schaak , T. Klimczuk , M. L. Foo , R. J. Cava

Diamond has always been adored as a jewel. Even more fascinating is its outstanding physical properties; it is the hardest material known in the world with the highest thermal conductivity. Meanwhile, when we turn to its electrical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Takano , M. Nagao , K. Kobayashi , H. Umezawa , I. Sakaguchi , M. Tachiki , T. Hatano , H. Kawarada

Superconducting quantum devices provide excellent connectivity and controllability while semiconductor spin qubits stand out with their long-lasting quantum coherence, fast control, and potential for miniaturization and scaling. In the last…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mónica Benito , Guido Burkard

From the days when superconductivity was discovered its science was entangled by the unresolved problem of the relationship between superconductive state, its crystal structure and its phase transitions. The problem was exacerbated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-27 Yury Mnyukh , Vitaly Vodyanoy