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20202026
most citedNew material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds

548 citations · 1.6k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Chiral, Electronically Decoupled Layers of 1T'-WS2 Topological Insulator via Neutral-Molecule Intercalation

Jiaze Xie, Fatmagül Katmer, Fang Yuan +9

Monolayer 1T'-WS2 is predicted to be a two-dimensional topological insulator, but its intrinsic electronic properties are masked by strong interlayer coupling in its metallic and s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Mechanochemical Nano-Writing of an Atomically Thin Metal

Shuai Zhang, Yanyu Jia, Atanu Samanta +14

Mechanical energy accelerates many physicochemical processes, including materials syntheses that are hard to produce with thermal energy alone. However, physical understanding conn…

quant-ph2026

Quantifying surface losses in superconducting aluminum microwave resonators

Elizabeth Hedrick, Faranak Bahrami, Alexander C. Pakpour-Tabrizi +11

The recent realization of millisecond-scale coherence with tantalum-on-silicon transmon qubits showed that depositing the Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junction in a high purity, ultrahigh…

quant-ph2026

Beta Tantalum Transmon Qubits with Quality Factors Approaching 10 Million

Atharv Joshi, Apoorv Jindal, Paal H. Prestegaard +9

Tantalum-based transmon qubits are a promising platform for building large-scale quantum processors. So far, these qubits have been made from tantalum films grown exclusively in th…

quant-ph2025

Superconducting Gap Engineering in Tantalum-Alloy-Based Resonators

Chen Yang, Faranak Bahrami, Guangming Cheng +7

Utilizing tantalum (Ta) in superconducting circuits has led to significant improvements, such as high qubit lifetimes and quality factors in both qubits and resonators, underscorin…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Suppression of Intertwined Density Waves in LaNiCuO

Stephen Zhang, Danrui Ni, Ruyi Ke +3

Superconductivity in LaNiO has been reported to emerge upon suppression of intertwined spin and charge density wave (SDW/CDW) order, suggesting a possible connec…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

2D transmons with lifetimes and coherence times exceeding 1 millisecond

Matthew P. Bland, Faranak Bahrami, Jeronimo G. C. Martinez +14

Materials improvements are a powerful approach to reducing loss and decoherence in superconducting qubits because such improvements can be readily translated to large scale process…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Vortex Motion Induced Losses in Tantalum Resonators

Faranak Bahrami, Matthew P. Bland, Nana Shumiya +17

Tantalum (Ta) based superconducting circuits have been demonstrated to enable record qubit coherence times and quality factors, motivating a careful study of the microscopic origin…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Anomalous Superconductivity in Twisted MoTe2 Nanojunctions

Yanyu Jia, Tiancheng Song, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng +14

Introducing superconductivity in topological materials can lead to innovative electronic phases and device functionalities. Here, we present a new strategy for quantum engineering…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Directionally Locked Heteroepitaxy with a Structurally Modulated van der Waals Material

Nitish Mathur, Guangming Cheng, Francesc Ballester +17

Precise orientation of symmetry-mismatched epilayers on van der Waals (vdW) substrates via heteroepitaxy has commonly been achieved through surface treatment processes to accommoda…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 1 cited

Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation

Ray D. Chang, Nana Shumiya, Russell A. McLellan +15

The lifetime of superconducting qubits is limited by dielectric loss, and a major source of dielectric loss is the native oxide present at the surface of the superconducting metal.…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 11 cited

Discovery of a Topological Charge Density Wave

Maksim Litskevich, Md Shafayat Hossain, Songbo Zhang +21

Charge density waves (CDWs) appear in numerous condensed matter platforms, ranging from high-Tc superconductors to quantum Hall systems. Despite such ubiquity, there has been a lac…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 4 cited

Discovery of a topological exciton insulator with tunable momentum order

Md Shafayat Hossain, Tyler A. Cochran, Yu-Xiao Jiang +27

Correlated topological materials often maintain a delicate balance among physical symmetries: many topological orders are symmetry protected, while most correlated phenomena arise…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 33 cited

Transport response of topological hinge modes in -BiBr

Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Zhiwei Wang +19

Electronic topological phases are renowned for their unique properties, where conducting surface states exist on the boundary of an insulating three-dimensional bulk. While the tra…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 5 cited

Investigation of W-SiC compositionally graded films as a divertor material

Zihan Lin, Carlos Monton, Stefan Bringuier +13

W-SiC composite material is a promising plasma-facing material candidate alternative to pure W due to the low neutron activation, low impurity radiation, and low tritium diffusivit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 23 cited

Surface-Confined Two-Dimensional Crystal Growth on a Monolayer

Yanyu Jia, Fang Yuan, Guangming Cheng +12

Conventional vapor deposition or epitaxial growth of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures is conducted in a large chamber in which masses transport from the source t…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

Observation of Kondo lattice and Kondo-enhanced anomalous Hall effect in an itinerant ferromagnet

Zi-Jia Cheng, Yuqing Huang, Pengyu Zheng +20

The interplay between Kondo screening and magnetic interactions is central to comprehending the intricate phases in heavy-fermion compounds. However, the role of the itinerant magn…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Spin disorder in a stacking polytype of a layered magnet

Xianghan Xu, Guangming Cheng, Danrui Ni +4

Strongly correlated ground states and exotic quasiparticle excitations in low-dimensional systems are central research topics in the solid state research community. The present wor…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 4 cited

Anomalously high supercurrent density in a two-dimensional topological material

Qi Zhang, Md Shafayat Hossain, Brian Casas +24

Ongoing advances in superconductors continue to revolutionize technology thanks to the increasingly versatile and robust availability of lossless supercurrent. In particular high s…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 30 cited

Coexistence of bulk-nodal and surface-nodeless Cooper pairings in a superconducting Dirac semimetal

Xian P. Yang, Yigui Zhong, Sougata Mardanya +21

The interplay of nontrivial topology and superconductivity in condensed matter physics gives rise to exotic phenomena. However, materials are extremely rare where it is possible to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Atomically Sharp Internal Interface in a Chiral Weyl Semimetal Nanowire

Nitish Mathur, Fang Yuan, Guangming Cheng +7

Internal interfaces in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are predicted to host distinct topological features that are different from the commonly studied external interfaces (crystal-to-vacuu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Anisotropic resistance with a 90-degree twist in a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal, Co2MnGa

Nicholas P. Quirk, Guangming Cheng, Kaustuv Manna +3

CoMnGa is a ferromagnetic semimetal with Weyl nodal lines identified by ARPES. We studied electrical transport in thin CoMnGa lamellae (10 10 0.4-5 micron…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Synthesis of an aqueous, air-stable, superconducting 1T'-WS monolayer-ink

Xiaoyu Song, Ratnadwip Singha, Guangming Cheng +7

Liquid-phase chemical exfoliation is ideal to achieve industry scale production of two-dimensional (2D) materials for a wide range of application such as printable electronics, cat…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 1 cited

Magnetization-direction-tunable kagome Weyl line

Zi-Jia Cheng, Ilya Belopolski, Tyler A. Cochran +21

Kagome magnets provide a fascinating platform for a plethora of topological quantum phenomena. Here, utilizing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we demonstrate Weyl lines…