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Introducing disorderness in the superconducting materials has been considered promising to enhance the electromagnetic impedance and realize noise-resilient superconducting qubits. Despite a number of pioneering implementations, the…

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

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The control and measurement of local non-equilibrium configurations is of utmost importance in applications on energy harvesting, thermoelectrics and heat management in nano-electronics. This challenging task can be achieved with the help…

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Transition Edge Sensors are ultra-sensitive superconducting detectors with applications in many areas of research, including astrophysics. The device consists of a superconducting thin film, often with additional normal metal features, held…

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In a Type II superconductor, the vortex core behaves like a normal metal. Consequently, the single-particle density of states in the vortex core of a conventional Type II superconductor remains either flat or (for very clean single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-23 Surajit Dutta , Indranil Roy , John Jesudasan , Subir Sachdev , Pratap Raychaudhuri

Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at high-frequency (5-90G Hz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Intense time-periodic laser fields can transform the electronic structure of a solid into strongly modified Floquet-Bloch bands. While this suggests multiple pathways to induce electronic orders such as superconductivity or charge density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-14 Nagamalleswararao Dasari , Martin Eckstein

The state-of-the-art technology of X-ray microcalorimeters based on superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), for applications in astrophysics and particle physics, is reviewed. We will show the advance in understanding the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Luciano Gottardi , Kenichiro Nagayoshi

The nature of the quantum valence transition is studied in the one-dimensional periodic Anderson model with Coulomb repulsion between f and conduction electrons by the density-matrix renormalization group method. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinji Watanabe , Masatoshi Imada , Kazumasa Miyake

We consider the current fluctuations in a mesoscopic circuit consisting of nodes connected by arbitrary connectors, in a setup with multiple normal or superconducting terminals. In the limit of weak superconducting proximity effect,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkila

The latest generation of transistors are nanoscale devices whose performance and reliability are limited by thermal noise in low-power applications. Therefore developing efficient methods to compute the voltage and current fluctuations in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-20 Ashwin Gopal , Massimiliano Esposito , Nahuel Freitas

We report a comprehensive study of the complex AC conductance of amorphous superconducting InO$_x$ thin films. Using a novel broadband microwave `Corbino' spectrometer we measure the explicit frequency dependency of the complex conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Wei Liu , Minsoo Kim , G. Sambandamurthy , N. P. Armitage

We probe the presence of long-range correlations in phase fluctuations by analyzing the higher-order spectrum of resistance fluctuations in ultra-thin NbN superconducting films. The non-Gaussian component of resistance fluctuations is found…

The scattering picture of electron transport in mesoscopic conductors shows that fluctuations of the current reveal additional information on the scattering mechanism not available through the conductance alone. The electronic fluctuations…

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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)…

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In high-temperature cuprate superconductors, the anti-ferromagnetic spin fluctuations are thought to have a very important role in naturally producing an attractive interaction between the electrons in the $d$-wave channel. The connection…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-17 T. Valla , P. Pervan , I. Pletikosić , I. K. Drozdov , Asish K. Kundu , Zebin Wu , G. D. Gu

Frequency instability of superconducting resonators and qubits leads to dephasing and time-varying energy-loss and hinders quantum-processor tune-up. Its main source is dielectric noise originating in surface oxides. Thorough noise studies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-05 David Niepce , Jonathan J. Burnett , Marina Kudra , Jared H. Cole , Jonas Bylander

Superconductivity without phonons has been proposed for strongly correlated electron materials that are tuned close to a zero-temperature magnetic instability of itinerant charge carriers. Near this boundary, quantum fluctuations of…

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We show results on the vortex core dissipation through current-voltage measurements under applied pressure and magnetic field in the superconducting phase of CeCoIn$_5$. We find that as soon as the system becomes superconducting, the vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Hu , H. Xiao , T. A. Sayles , M. Dzero , M. B. Maple , C. C. Almasan

Superconductivity is a quantum phenomenon caused by bound pairs of electrons. In diverse families of strongly correlated electron systems, the electron pairs are not bound together by phonon exchange but instead by some other kind of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-19 K. Ishida , S. Hosoi , Y. Teramoto , T. Usui , Y. Mizukami , K. Itaka , Y. Matsuda , T. Watanabe , T. Shibauchi