Gate control of superconducting current: Mechanisms, parameters and technological potential
arXiv:2302.13734 · doi:10.1063/5.0222371
Abstract
In conventional metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics, the logic state of a device is set by a gate voltage (VG). The superconducting equivalent of such effect had remained unknown until it was recently shown that a VG can tune the superconducting current (supercurrent) flowing through a nanoconstriction in a superconductor. This gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) effect can lead to superconducting logics like CMOS logics, but with lower energy dissipation. The physical mechanism underlying the GCS effect, however, remains under debate. In this review article, we illustrate the main mechanisms proposed for the GCS effect, and the material and device parameters that mostly affect it based on the evidence reported. We will come to the conclusion that different mechanisms are at play in the different studies reported so far. We then outline studies that can help answer open questions on the effect and achieve control over it, which is key for applications. We finally give insights into the impact that the GCS effect can have towards high-performance computing with low-energy dissipation and quantum technologies.
54 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables
References in corpus (79)
- Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"
- Charge insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box
- A Quantum Engineer's Guide to Superconducting Qubits
- Logic gates at the surface code threshold: Superconducting qubits poised for fault-tolerant quantum computing
- Magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond
- Bipolar supercurrent in graphene
- Amplification and squeezing of quantum noise with a tunable Josephson metamaterial
- Superconductivity and spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric materials: a review
- Evaluation of Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4
- Tunable Supercurrent Through Semiconductor Nanowires
- A Semiconductor Nanowire-Based Superconducting Qubit
- Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
- Rapid high-fidelity multiplexed readout of superconducting qubits
- Geometry-dependent critical currents in superconducting nanocircuits
- Realization of microwave quantum circuits using hybrid superconducting-semiconducting nanowire Josephson elements
- 3-Wave Mixing Josephson Dipole Element
- Superconducting Gatemon Qubit based on a Proximitized Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
- Fast and Unconditional All-Microwave Reset of a Superconducting Qubit
- Gate tuning of electronic phase transitions in two-dimensional NbSe
- Beyond Moore's technologies: operation principles of a superconductor alternative
- Quantum coherent control of a hybrid superconducting circuit made with graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures
- A superconducting-nanowire 3-terminal electronic device
- Metallic supercurrent field-effect transistor
- Gate-controlled quantum dots and superconductivity in planar germanium
- Demonstration of a Tuneable Coupler for Superconducting Qubits Using Coherent, Time Domain, Two-Qubit Operations
- Diabatic gates for frequency-tunable superconducting qubits
- Intrinsic Paramagnetic Meissner Effect due to s-wave Odd-Frequency Superconductivity
- Tuning phase transitions of FeSe thin flakes by field effect transistor with solid ion conductor as gate dielectric
- Time-domain characterization and correction of on-chip distortion of control pulses in a quantum processor
- On the imaging of electron transport in semiconductor quantum structures by scanning-gate microscopy: successes and limitations
- Superconducting switch for fast on-chip routing of quantum microwave fields
- High resolution measurements of the switching current in a Josephson tunnel junction: Thermal activation and macroscopic quantum tunneling
- Charge expulsion and electric field in superconductors
- A superconducting switch actuated by injection of high energy electrons
- Gate-controlled Suspended Titanium Nanobridge Supercurrent Transistor
- Dielectric permittivity, conductivity and breakdown field of hexagonal boron nitride
- Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer
- A nanoCryotron comparator can connect single-flux quantum circuits to conventional electronics
- Josephson Field-Effect Transistors Based on All-Metallic Al/Cu/Al Proximity Nanojunctions
- Magnetotransport Experiments on Fully Metallic Superconducting Dayem Bridge Field-Effect Transistors
- New AC-Powered SFQ Digital Circuits
- On the origin of the controversial electrostatic field effect in superconductors
- High-Energy Quasiparticle Injection into Mesoscopic Superconductors
- Thermal fluctuations in superconducting nanowires
- Electrically Tunable Superconductivity Through Surface Orbital Polarization
- Enhancement of Proximity Induced Superconductivity in a Planar Ge Hole Gas
- On the Role of Out-of-Equilibrium Phonons in Gated Superconducting Switches
- Unveiling Mechanisms of Electric Field Effects on Superconductors by Magnetic Field Response
- Field-Effect Control of Metallic Superconducting Systems
- Large Enhancement of Critical Current in Superconducting Devices by Gate Voltage
- Electrostatic control of phase slips in Ti Josephson nanotransistors
- Colossal orbital-Edelstein effect in non-centrosymmetric superconductors
- Gate-tunable, superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier
- Unveiling unconventional magnetism at the surface of SrRuO
- Electrostatic field-driven supercurrent suppression in ionic-gated metallic Josephson nanotransistors
- Gate-controlled supercurrent in epitaxial Al/InAs nanowires
- Sauter-Schwinger effect in a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductor
- Niobium Dayem nano-bridge Josephson field-effect transistors
- Ionic liquid gating of ultra-thinYBaCuO films
- Efficient and Low-Backaction Quantum Measurement Using a Chip-Scale Detector
- Realization of a Carbon-Nanotube-Based Superconducting Qubit
- Electrical Modulation of Superconducting Critical Temperature in Liquid-Gated Thin Niobium Films
- Passive superconducting circulator on a chip
- Millikelvin temperature cryo-CMOS multiplexer for scalable quantum device characterisation
- Microwave response of a metallic superconductor subject to a high-voltage gate electrode
- Vanadium gate-controlled Josephson half-wave nanorectifier
- Destroying superconductivity in thin films with an electric field
- Quantum control of frequency tunable transmon superconducting qubits
- Unconventional Meissner screening induced by chiral molecules in a conventional superconductor
- Theory of superconductivity in thin films under an external electric field
- Effects of fabrication routes and material parameters on the control of superconducting currents by gate voltage
- Impact of electrostatic fields in layered crystalline BCS superconductors
- Gate-Tunable Critical Current of the Three-Dimensional Niobium Nano-Bridge Josephson Junction
- Gate control of superconductivity in mesoscopic all-metallic devices
- Microscopic theory of supercurrent suppression by gate-controlled surface depairing
- Zero magnetic-field orbital vortices in s-wave spin-singlet superconductors
- Gate-controlled supercurrent effect in dry-etched Dayem bridges of non-centrosymmetric niobium rhenium
- Wafer-scale CMOS-compatible graphene Josephson field-effect transistors
- Dynamics of Gate-Controlled Superconducting Dayem Bridges
Cited by in corpus (7)
- Quantum confinement theory of ultra-thin films: electronic, thermal and superconducting properties
- Attojoule superconducting thermal logic and memories
- Multimode operation of a superconducting nanowire switch in the nanosecond regime
- Microwave dynamics of gated Al/InAs superconducting nanowires
- Microscopic mechanism of electric field-induced superconductivity suppression in metallic thin films
- Highly-Linear Proximity-Based Bi-SQUID Operating above 4 K
- Orbital-Angular-Momentum Entangled Photon Emission from Circular Currents in Semiconductor-Superconductor Structures