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In a device with a superconductor coupled to two parallel quantum dots (QDs) the electrical tunability of the QD levels can be used to exploit non-classical current correlations due to the splitting of Cooper pairs. We experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 L. Hofstetter , S. Csonka , A. Baumgartner , Fülöp , S. d'Hollosy , J. Nygård , C. Schönenberger

Although the microscopic origin of the superconductivity in high Tc copper oxides remains the subject of active inquiry, several of their electronic characteristics are well established as universal to all the known materials, forming the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 R. E. Schaak , T. Klimczuk , M. L. Foo , R. J. Cava

We discuss how a single Cooper-pair transistor may be used to detect the superconducting phase difference by using the phase dependence of the input capacitance from gate to the ground. The proposed device has a low power dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Leif Roschier , Mika Sillanpaa , Pertti Hakonen

A quantum thermal diode, similar to an electronic diode, allows for unidirectional heat transmission. In this paper, we study a quantum thermal diode composed of two two-level atoms coupled to auxiliary two-level atoms. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Qin Zhang , Zi-chen Zhang , Yi-jia Yang , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu

We investigate intrinsic superconducting diode effect in the unconventional superconducting state of $d$-wave altermagnets. We find large diode efficiencies in the wide-reaching finite-momentum pairing regimes of the phase diagram.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-16 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Quantum behavior of superconducting nanowires may essentially depend on the employed experimental setup. Here we investigate a setup that enables passing equilibrium supercurrent across an arbitrary segment of the wire without restricting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

A superconducting tunnel junction is used to directly extract quasiparticles from one of the leads of a single-Cooper-pair-transistor. The consequent reduction in quasiparticle density causes a lower rate of quasiparticle tunneling onto the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-18 A. J. Ferguson

The topic of quantum fluctuations in quasi-1D superconductors, also called quantum phase slips (QPS), has attracted a significant attention. It has been shown that the phenomenon is capable to suppress zero resistivity of ultra-narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 J. S. Lehtinen , T. Rantala , K. Yu. Arutyunov

We investigate the emergence of superconducting phases, both with zero and finite Cooper-pair center of mass momenta, in recently proposed unconventional $p$-wave magnets. As a consequence, we find that, while these magnetic phases are in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE) describes superconducting systems where the magnitude of the superconducting-to-normal state switching current differs for positive and negative current bias. Despite the ubiquity of such diode effects in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-11 Joseph J. Cuozzo , François Léonard

We present a fabrication process for fully superconducting interconnects compatible with superconducting qubit technology. These interconnects allow for the 3D integration of quantum circuits without introducing lossy amorphous dielectrics.…

The Kondo effect and superconductivity are both prime examples of many-body phenomena. Here we report transport measurements on a carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads that show a delicate interplay between both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Buitelaar , T. Nussbaumer , C. Schoenenberger

We propose a scenario for superconductivity at strong electron-electron attractive interaction, in the case when the increase of the interaction strength promotes the nucleation of the local Cooper pairs and forms a state with a spatially…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-27 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

We review some recent developments in the field of quasi-one-dimensional superconductivity. We demonstrate that low temperature properties of superconducting nanowires are essentially determined by quantum fluctuations. Smooth (Gaussian)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-18 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We propose a refrigeration scheme in a mesoscopic superconductor-quantum dot hybrid device. The setup can significantly cool down a normal metal coupled to the device by applying a bias voltage across the system. We demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Sun-Yong Hwang , Björn Sothmann , David Sanchez

Optimal engine performances are accomplished by quantum effects. Here we explore two routes towards ideal engines, namely (1) quantum systems that operate as hybrid machines being able to perform more than one useful task and (2) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Kun Woo Kim

This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Thermoelectric effect is exploited to optimize the Cooper pair splitting efficiency in a Y-shaped junction, which consists of two normal leads coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor via double noninteracting quantum dots. Here, utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Lin Li , Hong-Gang Luo

Single-electron transistors have been proposed to be used as a read-out device for Cooper pair charge qubits. Here we show that a coupled superconducting transistor at a threshold voltage is much more effective in measuring the state of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kinnunen , P. Torma , J. P. Pekola

Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). So far, SD effects have been reported in complex hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto