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A design of subkelvin single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits with reduced power dissipation and additional cooling of shunt resistors for superconducting qubit control circuits has been developed and characterized. We demonstrate operation of…

We investigate whether by synthesising superconductors that are tuned to a topological, node-reconstruction transition point we could create superconducting wires that are intrinsically resilient to quenches. Recent work shows that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-22 Philip Whittlesea , Jorge Quintanilla , James F. Annett , Adrian D. Hillier , Chris Hooley

We fabricated a superconducting single X-ray photon detector based on W0.8Si0.2, and we characterized its basic detection performance for keV-photons at different temperatures. The detector has a critical temperature of 4.97 K, and it is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-31 X. Zhang , Q. Wang , A. Schilling

We report measurements on ropes of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT) in low-resistance contact to non-superconducting (normal) metallic pads, at low voltage and at temperatures down to 70 mK. In one sample, we find a two order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 M. Kociak , A. Yu. Kasumov , S. Gueron , B. Reulet , L. Vaccarini , I. I. Khodos , Yu. B. Gorbatov , V. T. Volkov , H. Bouchiat

Superconducting circuits provide a versatile and controllable platform for studies of fundamental quantum phenomena as well as for quantum technology applications. A conventional technique to read out the state of a quantum circuit or to…

Intermediate states near normal-superconducting transition at ~100mK, important for a sensitive thermometer in x-ray calorimetry, have been studied by an imaging technique based on Low Temperature Scanning Synchrotron Microscopy (LTSSM). In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Pressler , M. Koike , M. Ohkubo , D. Fukuda , Y. Noguchi , M. Ohno , H. Takahashi , M. Nakazawa

The discovery of a record high superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 K in a pressurized hydride inspires new hope to realize ambient condition superconductivity. Here, we give a perspective on the theoretical and experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-21 Dong Wang , Yang Ding , Ho-Kwang Mao

We predict that below T_c a regime of negative differential conductivity (NDC) can be reached. The superconductor should be supercooled to T<T_c in the normal phase under DC voltage. In such a nonequilibrium situation the NDC of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Todor M. Mishonov , Mihail T. Mishonov

The search for high-temperature superconductors in hydrides under high pressure has always been a research hotspot. Hydrogen-based superconductors offer an avenue to achieve the long-sought goal of superconductivity at room temperature. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-22 Ming Xu , Defang Duan , Wendi Zhao , Decheng An , Hao Song , Tian Cui

We report the experimental discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature Tc above 70 K in zirconium polyhydrides, the record high so far for 3d transition metal hydrides. The superconducting zirconium polyhydrides are synthesized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-01 C. L. Zhang , X. He , Z. W. Li , S. J. Zhang , S. M. Feng , X. C. Wang , R. C. Yu , C. Q. Jin

2H-NbSe2 is the prototype and most frequently studied of the well-known transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) superconductors. Widely acknowledged to be a conventional superconductor, its transition temperature to the superconducting state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-28 Huixia Luo , Judyta Strychalska-Nowak , Jun Li , Jing Tao , Tomasz Klimczuk , Robert J. Cava

The recent surprising discovery of superconductivity with critical temperature $T_c$ = 32 K in MoB$_2$ above 70 GPa has led to the search for related materials that may superconduct at similarly high $T_c$ values and lower pressures. We…

We have successfully synthesized a new superconducting phase of FeTe1-xSx with a PbO-type structure. It has the simplest crystal structure in iron-based superconductors. Superconducting transition temperature is about 10 K at x = 0.2. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-07 Y. Mizuguchi , F. Tomioka , S. Tsuda , T. Yamaguchi , Y. Takano

The superconductor Sr4V2O6Fe2As2 with transition temperature at 37.2 K has been fabricated. It has a layered structure with the space group of p4/nmm, and with the lattice constants a = 3.9296Aand c = 15.6732A. The observed large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiyu Zhu , Fei Han , Gang Mu , Peng Cheng , Bing Shen , Bin Zeng , Hai-Hu Wen

Sn0.8Ag0.2Te is a new superconductor with Tc ~ 2.4 K. The superconducting properties of Sn0.8Ag0.2Te have been investigated by specific heat measurements under magnetic fields. Bulk nature of superconductivity was confirmed from the…

The Tb-123 phase has been synthesized in single-phase form with the composition TbSr2Cu2.7Mo0.3O7 by solid-state reaction route and its phase purity is confirmed by neutron powder diffraction experiments. As-synthesized sample does not show…

The device of electric double-layer transistor (EDLT) with ionic liquid has been employed as an effective way to dope carriers over a wide range, which can induce metallic state, magnetic reconstruction and superconducting transition.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-30 Shuai Zhang , Moran Gao , Huanyan Fu , Xinmin Wang , Zhian Ren , Genfu Chen

Microwave absorption measurements in magnetic fields from zero up to 16 T were used to determine the temperature range of superconducting fluctuations above the superconducting critical temperature T_c in YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}. Measurements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-10 M. S. Grbic , M. Pozek , D. Paar , V. Hinkov , M. Raichle , D. Haug , B. Keimer , N. Barisic , A. Dulcic

The electronic properties of superconducting Sn films ($T_c \approx$ 3.8 K) change significantly when reducing the film thickness down to a few nm, in particular close to the percolation threshold. The low-energy electrodynamics of such Sn…

S-band metals such as alkali and alkaline earth metals do not undergo a superconducting transition (SCT) at an ambient pressure, but their high-pressure phases do. In contrast, room temperature stable electride electride (C12A7:e-) in which…