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The thermopower of mesoscopic normal metal/superconductor structures has been measured at low temperatures. Effect of supercurrent present in normal part of the structure was studied in two cases: when it was created by applied external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zou , I. Sosnin , P. Virtanen , M. Meschke , V. T. Petrashov , T. T. Heikkila

Superconducting circuits can behave like atoms making transitions between two levels. Such circuits can test quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales and be used to conduct atomic-physics experiments on a silicon chip.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Q. You , Franco Nori

We present a perspective on a new critical-current-by-design paradigm to tailor and enhance the current-carrying capacity of applied superconductors. Critical current by design is based on large-scale simulations of vortex matter pinning in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-11 Andreas Glatz , Ivan A. Sadovskyy , Ulrich Welp , Wai-Kwong Kwok , George W. Crabtree

This brief examines the behavior of DC circuits comprised of resistively interconnected constant power devices, as may arise in DC microgrids containing micro-sources and constant power loads. We derive a sufficient condition for all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 John W. Simpson-Porco , Florian Dorfler , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we study the reliability of BCS theory as a scientific explanation of the mystery of superconductivity. It is shown clearly that the phonon-mediated BCS theory is fundamentally incorrect. Two kinds of glues, pairing…

General Physics · Physics 2008-09-22 Xiuqing Huang

The tremendous progress in Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) technology has been a direct consequence of device scaling for past several decades. But as we have entered the nanometer era many problems related to leakage currents and other…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Raja N Mir

The experimental determination of the superconducting transition requires the observation of the emergence of zero-resistance and perfect diamagnetism state. Based on the close relationship between superconducting transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-07 Sheng-Hai Zhu , Han Qin , Mi Zhong , Dai-He Fan , Xiang-Hui Chang , Yun Wei , Miao Zhang , Tao Zhu , Bin Tang , Fu-Sheng Liu , Qi-Jun Liu

Superconductivity is a phenomena where an external-feeding current flows through the system without voltage drop. This indicates the existence of an energy minimum under the current feeding boundary condition. Although it is believed that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-14 Daichi Manabe , Hiroyasu Koizumi

By drilling periodic thru-holes in a suspended film, the phonon system can be modified. Being motivated by the BCS theory, the technique, so-called phonon engineering, was applied to a niobium sheet. The newly emergent high-$T_{c}$…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 N. Zen

A growing number of two-dimensional superconductors are being discovered in the family of layered van der Waals (vdW) materials. Due to small sample volume, their characterization has been largely limited to electrical transport…

As a superconductor goes from the normal state into the superconducting state, the voltage vs. current characteristics at low currents change from linear to non-linear. We show theoretically and experimentally that the addition of current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. C. Sullivan , T. Frederiksen , J. M. Repaci , D. R. Strachan , R. A. Ott , C. J. Lobb

A vertical spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (spin MOSFET) is a promising low-power device for the post scaling era. Here, using a ferromagnetic-semiconductor GaMnAs-based vertical spin MOSFET with a GaAs channel layer,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Toshiki Kanaki , Hiroki Yamasaki , Tomohiro Koyama , Daichi Chiba , Shinobu Ohya , Masaaki Tanaka

We have observed an unusual dc current spontaneously generated in the conducting channel of a short-gated GaAs transistor. The magnitude and direction of this current critically depend upon the voltage applied to the gate. We propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko , Y. M. Galperin , V. I. Kozub , V. M. Vinokur , D. A. Ritchie

Processes that lead to the critical-current suppression and change of impedance of a superconductor under the application of an external voltage is an active area of research, especially due to various possible technological applications.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-25 Giacomo Catto , Wei Liu , Suman Kundu , Valtteri Lahtinen , Visa Vesterinen , Mikko Möttönen

Grid-forming voltage source converters (GFM-VSCs) play a crucial role in the stability of power systems with large amounts of converter-based generation. Transient stability (angle stability under large disturbances) is a critical limiting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Régulo E. Ávila-Martínez , Luis Rouco , Javier Renedo , Lukas Sigrist , Aurelio Garcia-Cerrada

Competition between superconducting and ferromagnetic ordering at interfaces between ferromagnets (F) and superconductors (S) gives rise to several proximity effects such as odd-triplet superconductivity and spin-polarized supercurrents. A…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-27 Alejandro A. Jara , Evan Moen , Oriol T. Valls , Ilya N. Krivorotov

We demonstrate an Al superconducting quantum interference device in which the Josephson junctions are implemented through gate-controlled proximitized Cu mesoscopic weak-links. The latter behave analogously to genuine superconducting metals…

The lifetime of an electron pair could not be unlimited long, on the basis of this, we suggest a model. The model means that the movements of charge carriers in a superconductor should have three forms: the single-electron movement, the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Tian De Cao

Superconductivity can be understood in terms of a phase transition from an uncorrelated electron gas to a condensate of Cooper pairs in which the relative phases of the constituent electrons are coherent over macroscopic length scales. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 Alberto Ronzani , Carles Altimiras , Sophie D'Ambrosio , Pauli Virtanen , Francesco Giazotto

The renewable energy is connected to the power grid through power electronic converters, which are lack of make the inertia of synchronous generator/machine (SM) be lost. The increasing penetration of renewable energy in power system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Yuan Gao , Hai-Peng Ren , Jie Li