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One of the most promising routes for achieving unprecedentedly high critical currents in superconductors is to incorporate dispersed, non-superconducting nanoparticles to control the dissipative motion of vortices. However, these inclusions…

Negative differential conductance (NDC) manifests as a significant characteristic of various underlying physics and transport processes in hybrid superconducting devices. In this work, we report the observation of gate-tunable NDC outside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingli Liu , Dong Pan , Tian Le , Jiangbo He , Zhongmou Jia , Shang Zhu , Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Guangtong Liu , Jie Shen , Jianhua Zhao , Li Lu , Fanming Qu

If a computer could be assembled from superconducting components, the energy efficiency would far surpass that of conventional electronics. Historic research efforts towards this goal yielded pivotal breakthroughs in the development and…

Due to stringent thermal budgets in cryogenic technologies such as superconducting quantum computers and sensors, minimizing the energy dissipation and power consumption of cryogenic electronic components is pivotal for large-scale devices.…

The demand for high-density data storage with ultrafast accessibility motivates the search for new memory implementations. Ideally such storage devices should be robust to input error and to unreliability of individual elements; furthermore…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Chandra , L. B. Ioffe

Superconducting circuits have attracted growing interest in recent years as a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Extensive efforts have always been taken to completely shield these circuits from external…

Local control of superconducting circuits by high-impedance electrical gates offers potential advantages in superconducting logic, quantum processing units, and cryoelectronics. Recent experiments have reported gate-controlled supercurrent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-20 François Joint , Kazi Rafsanjani Amin , Ivo Cools , Simone Gasparinetti

Quantum point contact or QPC -- a constriction in a semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) electron system with a quantized conductance -- has been found as the building block of novel spintronic, and topological electronic circuits. They can…

Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstanding debate on the interaction between electrostatic fields and…

Reducing the energy inefficiency of conventional CMOS-based computing devices -- which rely on logically irreversible gates to process information -- remains both a fundamental engineering challenge and a practical social challenge of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-02 Christian Z. Pratt , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

Realizing non-volatile control of superconductivity is a key step toward integrating memory and quantum functionality in future information technologies. KTaO_3-based heterostructures uniquely host both interfacial two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhihao Chen , Pengxu Ran , Jiexiong Sun , Fengmiao Li , Zhixin Yao , Lei Liu , Juan Jiang , Zhi Gang Cheng

We present a graphene-based memory platform built on dual-gated field-effect transistors (GFETs). By integrating a lithographically defined metal patch directly atop the hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-graphene channel, the device functions…

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…

As the world enters the age of ubiquitous computing, the need for reconfigurable hardware operating close to the fundamental limits of energy consumption becomes increasingly pressing. Simultaneously, scaling-driven performance improvements…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Alexantrou Serb , Ali Khiat , Themis Prodromakis

Despite metals are believed to be insensitive to field-effect and conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theories predict the electric field to be ineffective on conventional superconductors, a number of gating experiments showed the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Paolo Solinas , Elia Strambini , Claudio Puglia , Nadia Ligato , Francesco Giazotto

Non-volatile magnetic storage, from 1940s magnetic core to present day racetrack memory and magnetic anisotropy switching devices rely on the metastability of magnetic domains to store information. However, the inherent inefficiency of…

As conventional silicon technology is approaching its fundamental material and physical limits with continuous scaling, there is a growing push to look for new platform to design memory circuits for nanoelectronic applications. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Md. Nahid Hossain , Masud H Chowdhury

Superconducting computing promises enhanced computational power in both classical and quantum approaches. Yet, scalable and fast superconducting memories are not implemented. Here, we propose a fully superconducting memory cell based on the…

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The potential of semiconductors assembled from nanocrystals (NC semiconductors) has been demonstrated for a broad array of electronic and optoelectronic devices, including transistors, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photodetectors,…

A central task towards building a practical quantum computer is to protect individual qubits from decoherence while retaining the ability to perform high-fidelity entangling gates involving arbitrary two qubits. Here we propose and…