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We experimentally investigate the magnetic field $B$ dependence of the critical current I_c and the transition temperature T_c, i.e. the I_c(B)-T_c(B) phase boundary, of superconducting niobium thin films patterned with periodic and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-26 D. Bothner , R. Seidl , V. R. Misko , R. Kleiner , D. Koelle , M. Kemmler

The performance of superconducting microwave circuits is strongly influenced by the material properties of the superconducting film and substrate. While progress has been made in understanding the importance of surface preparation and the…

We suggest a new family of Co/Ni-based materials that may host unconventional high temperature superconductivity (high-T$_c$). These materials carry layered square lattices with each layer being formed by vertex-shared transition metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-15 Jiangping Hu , Congcong Le

Superconductivity and its underlying mechanisms are one of the most active research fields in condensed-matter physics. An important question is how to enhance the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ of a superconductor. In this respect, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-02 M. Kriener , M. Kamitani , T. Koretsune , R. Arita , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

For the first time, basing both on experimental facts and our theoretical consideration, we show that Fermi systems with flat bands should be tuned with the superconducting state. Experimental measurements on magic-angle twisted bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-16 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , M. Ya. Amusia , G. S. Japaridze

The concept of moir\'e superlattices has recently been introduced into the field of magnonics, enabling unprecedented control over spin-wave propagation and confinement in nanoscale magnonic devices. In this work, we report a numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Tianyu Yang , Gianluca Gubbiotti , Marco Madami , Haiming Yu , Jilei Chen

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with intrinsic ferromagnetism provide unique opportunity to engineer new functionalities in nano-spintronics. One such material is CrI$_3$, showing long-range magnetic order in monolayer with the Curie…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-20 Yu Liu , Lijun Wu , Xiao Tong , Jun Li , Jing Tao , Yimei Zhu , C. Petrovic

Contacts between high critical field superconductors and semiconductor nanowires are important in the context of topological quantum circuits in which superconductivity must be sustained to high magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Zhaoen Su , Azarin Zarassi , Binh-Minh Nguyen , Jinkyoung Yoo , Shadi A. Dayeh , Sergey M. Frolov

We have investigated the ternary noncentrosymmetric superconductors TaXSi (X=Re, Ru) by magnetization, resistivity, and specific heat measurements. The samples crystallize in orthorhombic TiFeSi structure having superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-19 Sajilesh K. P. , R. P. Singh

The article considers the simulation of the formation of a multilayer nanocomposite, the combination of elements of which gives rise to the effect of a spin valve. The relevance and importance of the effects in the field of spintronics and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-18 A. V. Vakhrushev , A. Yu. Fedotov , Yu. B. Savva , A. S. Sidorenko

Within the Ginzburg-Landau approach a theoretical study is performed of the effects of confinement on the transition to superconductivity for type-I and type-II materials with surface enhancement. The superconducting order parameter is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Montevecchi , J. O. Indekeu

This review gives a rather general discussion of high temperature superconductors as an example of a strongly correlated material. The argument is made that in view of the many examples of unconventional superconductors discovered in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick A. Lee

Currently known topological insulators (TIs) are limited to narrow gap compounds incorporating heavy elements, thus severely limiting the material pool available for such applications. We show via first-principle calculations how a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-23 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , L. B. Abdalla , Alex Zunger

Motivated by recent studies of the cluster Mott insulator candidate compound Nb3Cl8, this study performs 93Nb and 35Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to investigate the electron correlations. Below the structural transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Y. Z. Zhou , X. Han , J. Luo , D. T. Wu , A. F. Fang , B. Shen , B. J. Feng , Y. G. Shi , J. Yang , R. Zhou

To clarify the superconducting gap structure of the spin-triplet superconductor Sr_2RuO_4, the in-plane thermal conductivity has been measured as a function of relative orientations of the thermal flow, the crystal axes, and a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Izawa , H. Takahashi , H. Yamaguchi , Yuji Matsuda , M. Suzuki , T. Sasaki , T. Fukase , Y. Yoshida , R. Settai , Y. Onuki

Recent experiments have demonstrated that the superconducting critical temperature may be improved in various metamaterial superconductor geometries. Here, we present the results of a study of tin-based metamaterial superconductors in the…

We report the synthesis and physical properties of the single crystals of TaC, which are proposed to hold topological band structure as a topological superconductor (TSC) candidate. Magnetization, resistivity and specific heat measurements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-04 D. Yu. Yan , M. Yang , C. X. Wang , P. B. Song , C. J. Yi , Y. G. Shi

A review is given of advances in the field of carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in Mn-based diluted magnetic semiconductors and their nanostructures. Experimental results for III-V materials, where the Mn atoms introduce both spins and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomasz Dietl

We perform electric double-layer gating experiments on thin films of niobium nitride. Thanks to a cross-linked polymer electrolyte system of improved efficiency, we induce surface charge densities as high as $\approx 2.8 \times…

The spin susceptibility of noncentrosymmetric superconductors is studied when the gap function has line nodes. As examples, d-wave states, where the gap function has an additional odd-parity phase factor, are examined. The curve of the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-12 Hiroshi Shimahara