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As computing power demands continue to grow, superconducting electronics present an opportunity to reduce power consumption by increasing the energy efficiency of digital logic and memory. A key milestone for scaling this technology is the…

The demand for low-dissipation nanoscale memory devices is as strong as ever. As Moore's Law is staggering, and the demand for a low-power-consuming supercomputer is high, the goal of making information processing circuits out of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-18 Andrew Murphy , Dmitri Averin , Alexey Bezryadin

Superconducting nanowires undergoing quantum phase-slips have potential for impact in electronic devices, with a high-accuracy quantum current standard among a possible toolbox of novel components. A key element of developing such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-21 N. G. N. Constantino , M. S. Anwar , O. W. Kennedy , M. Dang , P. A. Warburton , J. C. Fenton

The temporary resistance triggered by phase slip will result in the switching of superconductor nanowire to a permanent normal state, decreasing the switching current. In this letter, we propose an improved impedance matching circuit that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-08 Labao Zhang , Xiachao Yan , Xiaoqing Jia , Jian Chen , Lin Kang , Peiheng Wu

Energy-efficiency and design-complexity of high-speed on-chip and inter-chip data-interconnects has emerged as the major bottleneck for high-performance computing-systems. As a solution, we propose an ultra-low energy interconnect…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-26 Mrigank Sharad , Kaushik Roy

Nanometallic devices based on amorphous insulator-metal thin films are developed to provide a novel non-volatile resistance-switching random-access memory (RRAM). In these devices, data recording is controlled by a bipolar voltage, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-08 Xiang Yang

The use of magnetic nanowires as memory units is made possible by the exponential divergence of the characteristic time for magnetization reversal at low temperature, but the slow relaxation makes the manipulation of the frozen magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-21 A. Vindigni , A. Rettori , L. Bogani , A. Caneschi , D. Gatteschi , R. Sessoli , M. A. Novak

We demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish two conductance switching mechanisms in silver sulfide devices at room temperature. Experiments were performed using a Ag$_2$S thin film deposited on a wide Ag bottom electrode, which was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 J. J. T. Wagenaar , M. Morales-Masis , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

An implementation of a universal solid-state quantum register based on electron space states in field-defined double quantum dots (DQD possesses one electron in two adjacent tunnel bound dots) in an ultrathin semiconductor nanowire is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Vladimir Vyurkov , Leonid Fedichkin , Igor Semenikhin , Denis Drozhzhin , Konstantin Rudenko , Vladimir Lukichev

Superconducting diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. Here, we demonstrate an electrothermal-switch superconducting…

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

We present a compact current sensor based on a superconducting microwave lumped-element resonator with a nanowire kinetic inductor, operating at 4.2 K. The sensor is suitable for multiplexed readout in GHz range of large-format arrays of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-11 S. Doerner , A. Kuzmin , K. Graf , S. Wuensch , I. Charaev , M. Siegel

The development of superconducting electronics based on nanocryotrons has been limited so far to few-device circuits, in part due to the lack of standard and robust logic cells. Here, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate designs for…

We demonstrate conditional entanglement swapping, i.e. teleportation of entanglement, between time-bin qubits at the telecommunication wavelength of 1536.4 nm with high fidelity of 87\%. Our system is deployable, utilizing modular,…

We report the prediction and observation of supra-binary ferroelectricity in a ferroelectric nanowire (FNW) covered with a semi-cylindrical gate that provides an anisotropic electric field in the FNW. There are gate-voltage-driven…

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor materials are fueling research in mesoscopic physics and quantum technology. Recently demonstrated smooth $\beta$-Sn superconductor shells, due to the increased induced gap, are expanding the available…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-04 B. Zhang , Z. Li , H. Wu , M. Pendharkar , C. Dempsey , J. S. Lee , S. D. Harrington , C. J. Palmstrom , S. M. Frolov

The primary impediment to continued improvement of traditional charge-based electronic devices in accordance with Moore's law is the excessive energy dissipation that takes place in the devices during switching of bits. One very promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Kuntal Roy

Reversible logic can provide lower switching energy costs relative to all irreversible logic, including those developed by industry in semiconductor circuits, however, more research is needed to understand what is possible. Superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-11 Kevin D. Osborn , Waltraut Wustmann

We analyze the quantum information processing capability of a superconducting transmon circuit used to mediate interactions between quantum information stored in a collection of phononic crystal cavity resonators. Having only a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Marek Pechal , Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

Microwave storage and retrieval are essential capabilities for superconducting quantum circuits. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip multimode resonator in which strong parametric modulation induces a large and tunable normal-mode splitting…