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cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 1 cited

Energy density driven ultrafast electronic excitations in a cuprate superconductor

Alessandra Milloch, Francesco Proietto, Naman Agarwal +7

Controlling nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum materials requires ultrafast probes with spectral selectivity. We report femtosecond reflectivity measurements on the cuprate superco…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Nonvolatile Cryogenic Phase Slip Memory with Single-Shot Readout

Lukas Nulens, Davi A. D. Chaves, Stijn Reniers +6

The demand for cryogenic memory components is driven by the need for ultra-fast, low-power, and highly reliable computing systems. Phase slip-based devices promise to fulfill all t…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Current Conservation in the Self-Consistent Josephson Junction

Simon Krekels, Vukan Levajac, Kristof Moors +2

Conventional treatments of Josephson junctions (JJs) are typically not current-conserving. In the mean-field BCS theory, current conservation is only guaranteed if the superconduct…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Misfit layer superconductors, tuneable bulk heterostructures with strong 2D effects

Tomas Samuely, Martin Gmitra, Tristan Cren +2

Atomically thin layered materials are systems with zero limit bulk-to-surface ratio. Their physical properties are determined by two-dimensionality and strongly affected by interfa…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

DC-operated Josephson junction arrays as a cryogenic on-chip microwave measurement platform

Senne Vervoort, Lukas Nulens, Davi A. D. Chaves +8

Providing radio frequency (RF) signals to circuits working in cryogenic conditions requires bulky and expensive transmission cabling interfacing specialized RF electronics anchored…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 21 cited

Fermi-Liquid Theory of Non-S-Wave Superconductivity

P. Muzikar, D. Rainer, J. A. Sauls

These lectures present the Fermi-liquid theory of superconductivity, which is applicable to a broad range of systems that are candidates for non-s wave pairing, {\it e.g.} the heav…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 15 cited

Catastrophic magnetic flux avalanches in NbTiN superconducting resonators

Lukas Nulens, Nicolas Lejeune, Joost Caeyers +9

Macroscopic superconducting components are an important building block of various quantum circuits. Since several of the envisioned applications require exposure to magnetic fields…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 1 cited

Electrodynamics of superconductors

Vladimir Kozhevnikov

Electrodynamics of superconductors is primarily the electrodynamics of the Meissner state, a state characterized by zero magnetic induction of a superconducting fraction of conduct…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 7 cited

Magnetic flux penetration in nanoscale wedge-shaped superconducting thin films

L. B. L. G. Pinheiro, L. Jiang, E. A. Abbey +9

Thickness uniformity is regarded as an important parameter in designing thin film devices. However, some applications based on films with non-uniform thickness have recently emerge…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 7 cited

Metastable states and hidden phase slips in nanobridge SQUIDs

Lukas Nulens, Heleen Dausy, Michal J. Wyszynski +4

We fabricated an asymmetric nanoscale SQUID consisting of one nanobridge weak link and one Dayem bridge weak link. The current phase relation of these particular weak links is char…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 19 cited

Meissner Effect: History of Development and Novel Aspects

Vladimir Kozhevnikov

The discovery of the Meissner effect was a turning point in the history of superconductivity. It demonstrated that superconductivity is an equilibrium state of matter, thus allowin…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 20 cited

The impact of kinetic inductance on the critical current oscillations of nanobridge SQUIDs

H. Dausy, L. Nulens, B. Raes +2

In this work, we study the current phase relation () of lithographically fabricated molybdenum germanium (MoGe) nanobridges, which is intimately linked to the nanobridge kinet…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 19 cited

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands in ferromagnetic superconducting diamond

Gufei Zhang, Tomas Samuely, Naoya Iwahara +11

The combination of different exotic properties in materials paves the way for the emergence of their new potential applications. An example is the recently found coexistence of the…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 14 cited

Protected superconductivity at the boundaries of charge-density-wave domains

B. Leridon, J. Vanacken, V. Moshchalkov +7

Solid 4He may acquire superfluid characteristics due to the frustration of the solid phase at grain boundaries. Here, we show that an analogous effect occurs in systems with compet…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Superfluid density of a photo-induced superconducting state

A. Shtyk, G. Goldstein, C. Aron +1

Nonequilibrium conditions offer novel routes to superconductivity that are not available at equilibrium. For example, by engineering nonequilibrium electronic populations, pairing…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 7 cited

Experimental study of the magnetic field distribution and shape of domains near the surface of type-I superconductors in the intermediate state

V. Kozhevnikov, A. Suter, T. Prokscha +1

The importance of accounting for the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field distribution and roundness of domain walls near the surface of type-I superconductors in the intermediate s…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 16 cited

Tunable artificial vortex ice in nanostructured superconductors with frustrated kagome lattice of paired antidots

C. Xue, J. -Y. Ge, A. He +5

Theoretical proposals for spin ice analogs based on nanostructured superconductors have suggested larger flexibility for probing the effects of fluctuations and disorder than in th…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 36 cited

Quantitative magneto-optical investigation of superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures

G. Shaw, J. Brisbois, L. B. G. L. Pinheiro +13

We present a detailed quantitative magneto-optical imaging study of several superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures, including Nb deposited on top of thermomagnetically patter…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 52 cited

Nematic superconducting state in iron pnictide superconductors

Jun Li, Paulo J. Pereira, Jie Yuan +19

Nematic order often breaks the tetragonal symmetry of iron-based superconductors. It arises from regular structural transition or electronic instability in the normal phase. Here,…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 22 cited

Thermally driven inhibition of superconducting vortex avalanches

Antonio Lara, Farkhad G. Aliev, Victor V. Moshchalkov +1

Complex systems close to their critical state can exhibit abrupt transitions, avalanches, between their metastable states. It is a challenging task to understand the mechanism of t…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 22 cited

Paramagnetic Meissner effect in ZrB12 single crystal with non-monotonic vortex-vortex interactions

Jun-Yi Ge, Vladimir N. Gladilin, Nikolay E. Sluchanko +4

The magnetic response related to paramagnetic Meissner effect (PME) is studied in a high quality single crystal ZrB12 with non-monotonic vortex-vortex interactions. We observe the…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 12 cited

Possible existence of a filamentary state in type-II superconductors

V. Kozhevnikov, A. -M. Valente-Feliciano, P. J. Curran +6

The standard interpretation of the phase diagram of type-II superconductors was developed in 1960s and has since been considered a well-established part of classical superconductiv…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 63 cited

Nanoscale assembly of superconducting vortices with scanning tunnelling microscope tip

Jun-Yi Ge, Vladimir N. Gladilin, Jacques Tempere +5

Vortices play a crucial role in determining the properties of superconductors as well as their applications. Therefore, characterization and manipulation of vortices, especially at…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 8 cited

Magnetic Dipoles at Topological Defects in the Meissner State of a Nanostructured Superconductor

Jun-Yi Ge, Vladimir N. Gladioli, Cun Xue +5

In a magnetic field, superconductivity is manifested by total magnetic field expulsion (Meissner effect) or by the penetration of integer multiples of the flux quantum Φ_0. Here we…