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Memristive circuit elements constitute a cornerstone for novel electronic applications, such as neuromorphic computing, called to revolutionize information technologies. By definition, memristors are sensitive to the history of electrical…

We present the design of a superconducting qubit that has circulating currents of opposite sign as its two states. The circuit consists of three nano-scale aluminum Josephson junctions connected in a superconducting loop and controlled by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Orlando , J. E. Mooji , Lin Tian , Caspar H. van der Wal , L. Levitov , Seth Lloyd , J. J. Mazo

We show a novel method for controlling the coupling of flux-based qubits by means of a superconducting transformer with variable flux transfer function. The device is realized by inserting a small hysteretic dc SQUID with unshunted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cosmelli , M. G. Castellano , F. Chiarello , R. Leoni , D. Simeone , G. Torrioli , P. Carelli

We present a novel reconfigurable metal-oxide-semiconductor multi-gate transistor that can host a quadruple quantum dot in silicon. The device consist of an industrial quadruple-gate silicon nanowire field-effect transistor. Exploiting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 A. C. Betz , M. L. V. Tagliaferri , M. Vinet , M. Broström , M. Sanquer , A. J. Ferguson , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

Electrical switching has been observed in carefully designed metal-insulator-metal devices built at small geometries. These devices are also commonly known as memristors and consist of specific materials such as transition metal oxides,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-10 Gaurav Gandhi , Varun Aggarwal

Superconducting diode effect, in analogy to the nonreciprocal resistive charge transport in semiconducting diode, is a nonreciprocity of dissipationless supercurrent. Such an exotic phenomenon originates from intertwining between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-01 Muhammad Nadeem , Michael S. Fuhrer , Xiaolin Wang

We investigate electron shuttling in three-terminal nanoelectromechanocal device built on a movable metallic rod oscillating between two drains. The device shows a double-well shaped electromechanical potential tunable by a source-drain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Taegeun Song , Leonid Y. Gorelik , Robert I. Shekhter , Mikhail N. Kiselev , Konstantin Kikoin

A nanoscale device consisting of a metal nanowire, a dielectric, and a gate is proposed. A combination of quantum and thermal stochastic effects enable the device to have multiple functionalities, serving alternately as a transistor, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 J. Bürki , C. A. Stafford , D. L. Stein

Diode is one of basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response, associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of superconducting diodes operational at zero magnetic field. They…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-02 T. Golod , V. M. Krasnov

The basis for superconducting electronics can broadly be divided between two technologies: the Josephson junction and the superconducting nanowire. While the Josephson junction (JJ) remains the dominant technology due to its high speed and…

The use of resistive shunts in superconducting electronics is vast and versatile, to dampen oscillations in junctions, stabilize switching behavior, aid current sensing, divert current during quenches, and protect both the superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-17 Khalil Harrabi , Zain Alzoubi , Leonardo Cadorim , Milorad Milosevic

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is characterized by its nonreciprocal nature in critical supercurrents. However, realizing a longitudinal SDE typically requires simultaneous time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) and inversion ($\mathcal{P}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Ruo-Peng Yu , Jin-Xin Hu , Zi-Ting Sun

Back-action refers to a response that retro-acts on a system to tailor its properties with respect to an external stimulus. This effect is at the heart of many electronic devices such as amplifiers, oscillators, and sensors. Here, we…

We have designed and investigated a contactless magnetic phase shifter for flux-based superconducting qubits. The phase shifter is realized by placing a perpendicularly magnetized dot at the centre of a superconducting loop. The flux…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Golubovic , W. V. Pogosov , M. Morelle , V. V. Moshchalkov

A memristor is a two-terminal nanodevice that its properties attract a wide community of researchers from various domains such as physics, chemistry, electronics, computer and neuroscience.The simple structure for manufacturing, small…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Mahyar Shahsavari , Pierre Boulet

The patterns of reversible changes in the critical current and discrete current states of a structure in the form of a superconducting quantum interferometer shunted by superconducting inductance, as a result of passing an alternating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-04 S. I. Link , V. P. Koverya , A. V. Krevsun , S. I. Bondarenko

Superconducting circuits are exceptionally flexible, enabling many different devices from sensors to quantum computers. Separately, epitaxial semiconductor devices such as spin qubits in silicon offer more limited device variation but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 Yun-Pil Shim , Charles Tahan

We report on the reversible, nonvolatile and polarity dependent resistive switching between superconductor and insulator states at the interfaces of a Au/YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ (YBCO)/Au system. We show that the superconducting state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Acha , M. J. Rozenberg

We Have developed the concept of a new kind of single-electron transistor in which the transport of the electron through a quantum wire is controlled by charged quantum rings. Using a 2D harmonic potential as the transverse constraint, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Ali Hosseinzadeh , Shahpoor Saeidian

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits a hysteretic insulator-to-metal transition near room temperature, forming the foundation for various forms of resistive switching devices. Usually, these are realized in the form of two-terminal bridge-like…