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Among the recognized sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits, the spatial inhomogeneity of the superconducting state and the possible presence of magnetic-flux vortices remain comparatively underexplored. Niobium is commonly used…

We demonstrate an approach for calculating temperature-dependent quantum and anharmonic effects with beyond density-functional theory accuracy. By combining machine-learned potentials and the stochastic self-consistent harmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-03 Carla Verdi , Luigi Ranalli , Cesare Franchini , Georg Kresse

Three new novel phases of carbon nitride (CN) bilayer, which are named as \alpha-C$_{2}$N$_{2}$, \beta-C$_{2}$N$_{2}$ and \gamma-C$_{4}$N$_{4}$, respectively, have been predicted in this paper. All of them are consisted of two CN sheets…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-01 Wanxing Lin , Shi-Dong Liang , Chunshan He , Wucheng Xie , Haiying He , Quanxiang Mai , Jiesen Li , D. X. Yao

Dilute superconductivity survives in bulk strontium titanate when the Fermi temperature falls well below the Debye temperature. Here, we show that the onset of the superconducting dome is dopant-dependent. When mobile electrons are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Benoît Fauqué , Clément Collignon , Hyeok Yoon , Ravi , Xiao Lin , Igor Mazin , Harold Y. Hwang , Kamran Behnia

Tunable superconductors provide a versatile platform for advancing next-generation quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate controllable superconductivity in suspended NbSe2 thin layers, achieved through local strain and thermal…

Fermi energies in fullerene compounds and cuprates are extremely small as consequence of the small number of charge carriers and are comparable to the phonon frequency scale. In this situation the conventional Migdal-Eliashberg theory does…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Botti , E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , L. Pietronero

We have numerically studied the instability of the spherically symmetric standing accretion shock wave against non-spherical perturbations. We have in mind the application to the collapse-driven supernovae in the post bounce phase, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Naofumi Ohnishi , Kei Kotake , Shoichi Yamada

We report the synthesis, magnetic susceptibility and crystal structure analysis for NbB2+x (x = 0.0 to 1.0) samples. The study facilitates in finding a correlation among the lattice parameters, chemical composition and the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Mudgel , V. P. S. Awana , G. L. Bhalla , H. Kishan

An open question in mechanics is whether mechanical resonators can be made nonlinear with vibrations approaching the quantum ground state. This requires engineering a mechanical nonlinearity far beyond what has been realized thus far. Here…

Motivated by frequently reported deviations from stoichiometry in cubic transition metal nitride (TMNx) thin films, the effect of N-vacancy concentration on the elastic properties of cubic TiNx, ZrNx, VNx, NbNx, and MoNx (0.72<x<1.00) is…

Niobium provides the basis for all superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities in use, however, hydrogen is readily absorbed by niobium during cavity fabrication and subsequent niobium hydride precipitation when cooled to cryogenic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Garg , S. Balachandran , I. Adlakha , P. J. Lee , T. R. Bieler , K. N. Solanki

Superconducting high-entropy alloys have recently emerged as a new platform for exploring superconductivity in highly disordered metallic systems and may offer advantages for applications requiring mechanical robustness and tolerance to…

In a zero-dimensional superconductor, quantum size effects(QSE) not only set the limit to superconductivity, but are also at the heart of new phenomena such as shell effects, which have been predicted to result in large enhancements of the…

Simulations of defects in paramagnetic materials at high temperature constitute a formidable challenge to solid state theory due to the interaction of magnetic disorder, vibrations, and structural relaxations. CrN is a material where these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-11 Elham Mozafari , Björn Alling , Peter Steneteg , Igor A. Abrikosov

We investigate the structural, electronic, mechanical and elastic properties of two niobium based intermetallic compounds Nb3Be and Nb3Be2 by using the DFT based theoretical method. A good agreement is found among the structural parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-26 Md. Zahidur Rahaman , Md. Lokman Ali

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamond offer a promising platform for quantum information processing due to their room-temperature spin coherence and optical addressability. However, scalable quantum processors remain limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Guangyu Zhang , Huaijin Zhang , Zhang-qi Yin

We present an experimental characterisation of the electrical properties of 3D-printed Niobium. The study was performed by inserting a 3D-printed Nb post inside an Aluminium cylindrical cavity, forming a 3D lumped element re-entrant…

In supersymmetric models with the run-away vacua or with the stable but non-supersymmetric ground state there exist stable field configurations (vacua) which restore one half of supersymmetry and are characterized by constant positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Dvali , M. Shifman

We report on a nonequilibrium quantum phase transition (NQPT) in a hybrid quantum many-body system consisting of a vibrational mode of a damped nanomembrane interacting optomechanically with a cavity, whose output light couples to two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-24 Milan Radonjić , Leon Mixa , Axel Pelster , Michael Thorwart

Structural defects are important for both solid-state chemistry and physics, as they can have a significant impact on chemical stability and physical properties. Here, we identify a vacancyinduced pseudo-gap formation in antiferromagnetic…