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Trying to dope graphite flakes we found that the magnetization of pure, several tens of micrometers grain size graphite powder and after a simple treatment with pure water shows clear and reproducible granular superconducting behavior with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-09 T. Scheike , W. Böhlmann , P. Esquinazi , J. Barzola-Quiquia , A. Ballestar , A. Setzer

The equations of viscous evolution of 3D arbitrarily shaped vortices in an isotropic type II superconductor and necessary boundary conditions are formulated in the frame of London approximation. The theory is applied to analyse…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

The ground state with vorticity larger than one in mesoscopic superconductors in applied magnetic field may manifest as a `giant'-vortex, where all vortices coalesce into a single singularity of the order parameter. Such a multi-quanta…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-04 Ben Xu , M. V. Milošević , Shi-Hsin Lin , F. M. Peeters , B. Jankó

We study numerically the motion of vortices in two-dimensional arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions. An extra vortex is created in the ground states by introducing novel boundary conditions and made mobile by applying external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jong Soo Lim , M. Y. Choi , Beom Jun Kim , J. Choi

We report a local minimum in thermal conductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at the angle of 1.08$^\circ$, which corresponds to the 'magic angle' in the transition of several other reported properties. Within the supercell of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Yajuan Cheng , Zheyong Fan , Tao Zhang , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz , Guimei Zhu , Baowen Li , Shiyun Xiong

Superconducting vortex loops have so far avoided experimental detection despite being the focus of much theoretical work. We here propose a method of creating controllable vortex loops in the superconducting condensate arising in a normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

This review discusses the electronic properties and the prospective research directions of superconductor-graphene heterostructures. The basic electronic properties of graphene are introduced to highlight the unique possibility of combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Gil-Ho Lee , Hu-Jong Lee

We consider a two-dimensional array of ultra-small superconducting grains, weakly coupled by Josephson junctions with large charging energy. We start from an effective action based on a microscopic tunneling Hamiltonian, which includes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Mahn-Soo Choi , Sung-Ik Lee , M. Y. Choi

Electron transport in two-dimensional conducting materials such as graphene, with dominant electron-electron interaction, exhibits unusual vortex flow that leads to a nonlocal current-field relation (negative resistance), distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-22 Jonathan Mayzel , Victor Steinberg , Atul Varshney

Recent experimental advances have unveiled promising evidence of vortex-bound Majorana quasiparticles in multiple superconducting compounds. However, theoretical progress in understanding these phenomena, especially from ab initio…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhuo Chen , Jiangxu Li , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhen Bi , Rui-Xing Zhang

A yet unexplored area in graphene electronics is the field of quantum ballistic transport through graphene nanostructures. Recent developments in the preparation of high mobility graphene are expected to lead to the experimental…

The vortex dynamics in mesoscopic superconducting cylinders with rectangular cross section under an axially applied magnetic field is investigated in the multivortex London regime. The rectangles considered range from a square up to an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Leonardo R. E. Cabral , J. Albino Aguiar

The discovery of alternating superconducting and insulating ground-states in magic angle graphene has suggested an intriguing analogy with cuprate high-$T_c$ materials. Here we argue that the network states of small angle twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 E. J. König , Piers Coleman , A. M. Tsvelik

We propose a hybrid quantum device based on the graphene Josephson junctions, where the vibrational degrees of freedom of a graphene membrane couple to the superconducting circuits. The flexural mode-controlled tunneling of the Cooper pairs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Zhen-Yang Peng , Mehdi Abdi

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

We show that twisted interfaces between superconductors can serve as a phase-sensitive platform for the detection and characterization of pair density waves (PDW). In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the critical Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-16 Jefferson Tang , Pavel A. Volkov

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

We propose a simple experiment to determine whether vortices persist above the superconducting transition temperature Tc in the pseudogap phase of high temperature cuprate superconductors. This involves using a magnetic dot to stabilize a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Zoran Ristivojevic , M. R. Norman

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

The electronic and transport properties of graphene modulated by magnetic barrier arrays are derived for finite temperature. Prominent conductance gaps, originating from quantum interference effects are found in the periodic array case.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Nojoon Myoung , Elefterios Lidorikis