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Superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid structures are useful in fabricating devices for quantum information processing. While selective area growth (SAG) offers the flexibility to grow semiconductor nanowires in arbitrary geometries,…

A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid nanowires are a leading material platform for the realization of Majorana zero modes. The semiconductors in previous studies are dominantly InAs or InSb. In this work, we show the induced…

Serial double quantum dots created in semiconductor nanostructures provide a versatile platform for investigating two-electron spin quantum states, which can be tuned by electrostatic gating and an external magnetic field. In this work, we…

We present the first study of superconducting nanowires shunted with an external resistor, geared towards understanding and controlling coherence and dissipation in nanowires. The dynamics is probed by measuring the evolution of the V-I…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Matthew W. Brenner , Dibyendu Roy , Nayana Shah , Alexey Bezryadin

The topic of superconductivity in strongly disordered materials has attracted a significant attention. In particular vivid debates are related to the subject of intrinsic spatial inhomogeneity responsible for non-BCS relation between the…

During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining the virtues of both by offering the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-02 M. Eschrig

Josephson junctions based on InAs semiconducting nanowires and Nb superconducting electrodes are fabricated in-situ by a special shadow evaporation scheme for the superconductor electrode. Compared to other metallic superconductors such as…

We study the current-phase relation (CPR) of an InSb-Al nanowire Josephson junction in parallel magnetic fields up to $700$\,mT. At high magnetic fields and in narrow voltage intervals of a gate under the junction, the CPR exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Vukan Levajac , Hristo Barakov , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Nick van Loo , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Yuli V. Nazarov , Ji-Yin Wang

Rapid miniaturization of electronic devices and circuits demands profound understanding of fluctuation phenomena at the nanoscale. Superconducting nanowires -- serving as important building blocks for such devices -- may seriously suffer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Konstantin Yu. Arutyunov , Janne S. Lehtinen , Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Modern Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are commonly fabricated from either Al or Nb electrodes, with an in-situ oxidation process to create a weak link between them. However, common problems of such planar nano- and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-18 Liam S. Farrar , Aimee Nevill , Zhen Jieh Lim , Geetha Balakrishnan , Sara Dale , Simon J. Bending

More and more materials, with a growing variety of properties, are built into electronic devices. This is motivated both by increased device performance and by the studies of materials themselves. An important type of device is a Josephson…

Epitaxial semiconductor-superconductor hybrid materials are an excellent basis for studying mesoscopic and topological superconductivity, as the semiconductor inherits a hard superconducting gap while retaining tunable carrier density.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 D. Sherman , J. S. Yodh , S. M. Albrecht , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

We demonstrate long-range superconducting correlations in a several micrometer-long carbon nanotube encapsulated in a van der Waals stack between hBN and NbSe$_2$. We show that a substantial supercurrent flows through the nanotube section…

Magnetic inhomogeneity at a superconductor (S)/ferromagnet (F) interface converts spin-singlet Cooper pairs into spin-one triplet pairs. These pairs are immune to the pair-breaking exchange field in F and support a long-range proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Banerjee , J. W. A. Robinson , M. G. Blamire

SHORTENED ABSTRACT: We study numerically the properties of spin- and charge-transport in a nanoscale diffusive superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor junction when the magnetization texture is non-uniform. Specifically, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-15 Mohammad Alidoust , Jacob Linder , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø

The superconducting proximity effect is probed experimentally in Josephson junctions fabricated with InAs nanowires contacted by Nb leads. Contact transparencies $t \sim 0.7$ are observed. The electronic phase coherence length at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kaveh Gharavi , Gregory W. Holloway , Ray R. LaPierre , Jonathan Baugh

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

Network structures by semiconductor nanowires hold great promise for advanced quantum devices, especially for applications in topological quantum computing. In this study, we created networks of PbTe nanowires arranged in loop…

Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems, where the nonreciprocal quantity is the resistance. Recent…