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Topological superconductors are associated with the appearance of Majorana bound states, with promising applications in topologically protected quantum computing. In this Letter, we study a system where a skyrmion crystal is interfaced with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-14 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

The measurement of superconductivity at above 200K in compressed samples of hydrogen sulfide and lanthanum hydride at 250K is reinvigorating the search for conventional high temperature superconductors. At the same time it exposes a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Chris J. Pickard , Ion Errea , Mikhail I. Eremets

CuAl2-type transition-metal (Tr) zirconides are superconductor family, and the Tr-site element substitution largely modifies its transition temperature (Tc). Here, we synthesized polycrystalline samples of Fe1-xNixZr2 by arc melting. From…

Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals cuprate crystals enable tunable Josephson coupling between in-plane anisotropic superconducting order parameters. Employing a novel cryogenic assembly technique, we fabricate Josephson…

This study explores the emergence of superconductivity in high-quality ZrTe$_{2-x}$Se$_x$ crystals, grown via the isothermal chemical vapor transport (ICVT) technique. Resistive, structural, and thermal measurements reveal that substituting…

Hyperdoping with gallium (Ga) has been established as a route to observe superconductivity in silicon (Si). The relatively large critical temperatures (T$_{\rm c}$) and magnetic fields (B$_{\rm c}$) make this phase attractive for cryogenic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-18 K. Sardashti , T. Nguyen , M. Hatefipour , W. L. Sarney , J. Yuan , W. Mayer , K. Kisslinger , J. Shabani

In newly discovered topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), the unique crystalline protection of the surface state (SS) band structure has led to a series of intriguing predictions of strain generated phenomena, from the appearance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Ilija Zeljkovic , Daniel Walkup , Badih Assaf , Kane L Scipioni , R. Sankar , Fangcheng Chou , Vidya Madhavan

In this work, transferable empirical tight binding parameters of strained group IV and III-V semiconductors are generated from ab-initio calculations. The empirical tight binding parameters show good transferability when applied to strained…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-28 Yaohua P. Tan , Michael Povolotskyi , Tillmann Kubis , Timothy B. Boykin , Gerhard Klimeck

We report on the synthesis and microstructural studies of fluorine based iron doped superconductors. We have successfully synthesized the fluorine based new superconducting material LaO1-xFxFeAs by choosing comparatively lower temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-06-11 Chandra Shekhar , Sonal Singh , P K Siwach , H K Singh , O N Srivastava

Crystal structure and physical properties of the novel BiS2-based layered superconductors are briefly reviewed. Superconductivity in the BiS2-based layered compounds is induced by electron doping into the BiS2 conduction layers. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-06 Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

We present a superconductor-semiconductor material system that is both scalable and monolithically integrated on a silicon substrate. It uses selective area growth of Al-InAs hybrid structures on a planar III-V buffer layer, grown directly…

Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines

Superconducting-proximity topological insulators (STIs) have garnered significant research attention over the past two decades. In this Letter, we demonstrate that a low-dimensional STI in the topological-nontrivial phase (TP) exhibits an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-02 Yajiang Chen , Ke-Ji Chen , Jia-Ji Zhu , A. A. Shanenko

The discovery of correlated phases in twisted moir\'e superlattices accelerated the search for low-dimensional materials with exotic properties. A promising approach uses engineered substrates to strain the material. However, designing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Md Tareq Mahmud , Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

A new mechanism for memristive switching in 2D materials is through electric-field controllable electronic/structural phase transitions, but these devices have not outperformed status quo 2D memristors. Here, we report a high-performance…

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

A superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) transistor based on superconducting microcoolers is presented. The proposed 4-terminal device consists of a long SNS Josephson junction whose N region is in addition symmetrically connected…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-12 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , T. T. Heikkila , R. Fazio , F. Beltram

We report the doping-induced antiferromagnetic state and Fermi liquid state that are connected by a superconducting region in a series of CeIrIn$_{5-x}$Hg$_x$, CeIrIn$_{5-x}$Sn$_x$ and CeIr$_{1-x}$Pt$_x$In$_5$ single crystals. Measurements…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-07 T. Shang , R. E. Baumbach , K. Gofryk , F. Ronning , Z. F. Weng , J. L. Zhang , X. Lu , E. D. Bauer , J. D. Thompson , H. Q. Yuan

The recent discovery of high temperature superconductivity in a layered iron arsenide has led to an intensive search to optimize the superconducting properties of iron-based superconductors by changing the chemical composition of the spacer…

We propose an experiment-based strategy for finding new high transition temperature superconductors that is based on the well-established spin fluctuation magnetic gateway to superconductivity in which the attractive quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 David Pines