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cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 1 cited

Polarization Controlled Supercurrent in Ferroelectric Josephson Junction

Yaozu Tang, Mazhar N. Ali, Gerrit E. W. Bauer +1

Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superco…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Andreev molecules at distance

Erik S. Samuelsen, Yuli V. Nazarov

Andreev molecule states arise from hybridization of Andreev bound states in different Josephson Junctions. Extensive theoretical and experimental research concentrates on direct co…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Electric field control of superconducting fluctuations and quasiparticle interference at oxide interfaces

Graham Kimbell, Ulderico Filippozzi, Stefano Gariglio +4

We investigate tunable superconducting transitions in (111) field-effect devices. Large increases in conductivity, associated with superconducting…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 10 cited

Charting the landscape of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors in experimentally known compounds

Marnik Bercx, Samuel Poncé, Yiming Zhang +8

We perform a high-throughput computational search for novel phonon-mediated superconductors, starting from the Materials Cloud 3-dimensional structure database of experimentally kn…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 2 cited

Volume dependence of microwave induced excess quasiparticles in superconducting resonators

Steven A. H. de Rooij, Jochem J. A. Baselmans, Juan Bueno +3

The presence of quasiparticles typically degrades the performance of superconducting microwave circuits. The readout signal can generate non-equilibrium quasiparticles, which lead…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

High-field superconductivity from atomic-scale confinement and spin-orbit coupling at (111) interfaces

Ulderico Filippozzi, Graham Kimbell, Davide Pizzirani +6

We study the superconducting critical fields of two-dimensional electron systems at (111) interfaces as a function of electrostatic back-gating. Our work r…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Laser-Induced Relaxation Oscillations in Superconducting Nanobridge Single Photon Detectors

F. B. Baalbergen, I. E. Zadeh, M. J. A. de Dood

We demonstrate novel laser-induced relaxation oscillations in superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). These oscillations appear when a voltage biased NbTiN nanob…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 1 cited

Recombination of localized quasiparticles in disordered superconductors

Steven A. H. de Rooij, Remko Fermin, Kevin Kouwenhoven +6

Disordered superconductors offer new impedance regimes for quantum circuits, enable a pathway to protected qubits, and can improve superconducting detectors due to their high kinet…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 7 cited

Nonlinearity of transparent SNS weak links decreases sharply with length

Valla Fatemi, Pavel D. Kurilovich, Anton R. Akhmerov +1

Superconductor-normal material-superconductor (SNS) junctions are being integrated into microwave circuits for fundamental and applied research goals. The short junction limit is a…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 10 cited

Realisation of de Gennes Absolute Superconducting Switch with a Heavy Metal Interface

Hisakazu Matsuki, Alberto Hijano, Grzegorz P. Mazur +13

In 1966, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes proposed a non-volatile mechanism for switching superconductivity on and off in a magnetic device. This involved a superconductor (S) sandwiched be…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 43 cited

Signatures of Majorana protection in a three-site Kitaev chain

Alberto Bordin, Chun-Xiao Liu, Tom Dvir +14

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in o…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 4 cited

Direct visualization of quasiparticle concentration around superconducting vortices

Jian-Feng Ge, Koen M. Bastiaans, Jiasen Niu +3

Bogoliubov quasiparticles play a crucial role in understanding the behavior of a superconductor, and in achieving reliable operations of superconducting quantum circuits. Diagnosis…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Three-Tone Coherent Microwave Electromechanical Measurement of a Superfluid Helmholtz Resonator

Sebastian Spence, Emil Varga, Clinton A. Potts +1

We demonstrate electromechanical coupling between a superfluid mechanical mode and a microwave mode formed by a patterned microfluidic chip and a 3D cavity. The electric field of t…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 31 cited

Double-Fourier engineering of Josephson energy-phase relationships applied to diodes

A. Mert Bozkurt, Jasper Brookman, Valla Fatemi +1

We present a systematic method to design arbitrary energy-phase relations using parallel arms of two series Josephson tunnel junctions each. Our approach employs Fourier engineerin…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 7 cited

Why shot noise does not generally detect pairing in mesoscopic superconducting tunnel junctions

Jiasen Niu, Koen M. Bastiaans, Jianfeng Ge +10

The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the e…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 34 cited

Electrostatic control of the proximity effect in the bulk of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids

N. van Loo, G. P. Mazur, T. Dvir +11

The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an induced gap in the semiconductor. The magnitude of this induced gap, together with the sem…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 14 cited

Mesoscopic superconducting memory based on bistable magnetic textures

Remko Fermin, Naor Scheinowitz, Jan Aarts +1

With the ever-increasing energy need to process big data, the realization of low-power computing technologies, such as superconducting logic and memories, has become a pressing iss…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 43 cited

Puddle formation, persistent gaps, and non-mean-field breakdown of superconductivity in overdoped (Pb,Bi)2Sr2CuO6+δ

Willem O. Tromp, Tjerk Benschop, Jian-Feng Ge +14

The cuprate high-temperature superconductors exhibit many unexplained electronic phases, but it was often thought that the superconductivity at sufficiently high doping is governed…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 17 cited

Single-electron charge transfer into putative Majorana and trivial modes in individual vortices

Jian-Feng Ge, Koen M. Bastiaans, Damianos Chatzopoulos +6

Majorana bound states are putative collective excitations in solids that exhibit the self-conjugate property of Majorana fermions - they are their own antiparticles. In iron-based…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 21 cited

Near zero-energy Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon vortex states in the presence of impurities

Bruna S. de Mendonça, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Nancy Sandler +1

Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states are localized states with a discrete energy spectrum bound to the core of vortices in superconductors. In topological superconductors, CdGM…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 27 cited

Gate-tunable kinetic inductance in proximitized nanowires

Lukas Johannes Splitthoff, Arno Bargerbos, Lukas Grünhaupt +6

We report the detection of a gate-tunable kinetic inductance in a hybrid InAs/Al nanowire. For this purpose, we have embedded the nanowire into a quarter-wave coplanar waveguide re…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 14 cited

Nonlocal measurement of quasiparticle charge and energy relaxation in proximitized semiconductor nanowires using quantum dots

Guanzhong Wang, Tom Dvir, Nick van Loo +6

The lowest-energy excitations of superconductors do not carry an electric charge, as their wave function is equally electron-like and hole-like. This fundamental property is not ea…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 23 cited

Asymmetric Little-Parks Oscillations in Full Shell Double Nanowires

Alexandros Vekris, Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña, Joeri de Bruijckere +6

Little-Parks oscillations of a hollow superconducting cylinder are of interest for flux-driven topological superconductivity in single Rashba nanowires. The oscillations are typica…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 9 cited

Integrating superconducting van der Waals materials on paper substrates

Jon Azpeitia, Riccardo Frisenda, Martin Lee +6

Paper has the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of electronic components. In fact, paper is 10 000 times cheaper than crystalline silicon, motivating the research to integr…