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Strong nonlinear thermoelectricity generation and close-to-Carnot efficient heat engines in Superconductor-Insulator-2D electron gas junctions
Leonardo Lucchesi, Federico Paolucci
We propose and theoretically analyse a novel Superconductor-Insulator-2D electron gas tunnel junction (SI2DEG) that strongly and efficiently generates thermoelectricity via a nonli…
Side-gate modulation of supercurrent in InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junctions
Bianca Turini, Sedighe Salimian, Matteo Carrega +4
InSb nanoflags, due to their intrinsic spin-orbit interactions, are an interesting platform in the study of planar Josephson junctions. Ballistic transport, combined with high tran…
Tailoring coherent charge transport in graphene by deterministic defect generation
Nicola Melchioni, Federico Paolucci, Paolo Marconcini +4
Harnessing the wave-nature of charge carriers in solid state devices, electron optics investigates and exploits coherent phenomena, in analogy with optics and photonics. Typically,…
Active electron cooling of graphene
Federico Paolucci, Federica Bianco, Francesco Giazotto +1
In the emergent field of quantum technology, the ability to manage heat at the nanoscale and in cryogenic conditions is crucial for enhancing device performance in terms of noise,…
Thermoelectric single-photon detection through superconducting tunnel junctions
Federico Paolucci, Gaia Germanese, Alessandro Braggio +1
Bipolar thermoelectricity in tunnel junctions between superconductors of different energy gap has been recently predicted and experimentally demonstrated. This effect showed thermo…
Design and simulation of a transmon qubit chip for Axion detection
Roberto Moretti, Hervè Atsè Corti, Danilo Labranca +54
Quantum Sensing is a rapidly expanding research field that finds one of its applications in Fundamental Physics, as the search for Dark Matter. Devices based on superconducting qub…
Optical grade bromide-based thin film electrolytes
Nicola Melchioni, Giacomo Trupiano, Giorgio Tofani +9
Controlling the charge density in low-dimensional materials with an electrostatic potential is a powerful tool to explore and influence their electronic and optical properties. Con…
Non-local superconducting single-photon detector
Federico Paolucci
We present and theoretically analyse the performance of an innovative non-local superconducting single-photon detector. The device operates thanks to the energy-to-phase conversion…
A highly-sensitive broadband superconducting thermoelectric single-photon detector
Federico Paolucci, Gaia Germanese, Alessandro Braggio +1
We propose a passive single-photon detector based on the bipolar thermoelectric effect occurring in tunnel junctions between two different superconductors thanks to spontaneous ele…
A gate- and flux-controlled supercurrent diode
Federico Paolucci, Giorgio De Simoni, Francesco Giazotto
Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). S…
Phase-control of bipolar thermoelectricity in Josephson tunnel junctions
Gaia Germanese, Federico Paolucci, Giampiero Marchegiani +2
Not so long ago, thermoelectricity in superconductors was believed to be possible only by breaking explicitly the particle-hole symmetry. Recently, it has been theoretically predic…
Inductive Superconducting Quantum Interference Proximity Transistor: the L-SQUIPT
F. Paolucci, P. Solinas, F. Giazotto
The design for an inductive superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor with enhanced performance, the L-SQUIPT, is presented and analyzed. The interferometer is base…
Bipolar Thermoelectric Josephson Engine
Gaia Germanese, Federico Paolucci, Giampiero Marchegiani +2
Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly-perfect particle-hole (PH) symmetry around their Fermi surface [1, 2]. Despite being initially considered par…
Thermal superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor
Nadia Ligato, Federico Paolucci, Elia Strambini +1
Superconductors are known to be excellent thermal insulators at low temperature owing to the presence of the energy gap in their density of states (DOS). In this context, the super…
Electrostatic field-driven supercurrent suppression in ionic-gated metallic Josephson nanotransistors
Federico Paolucci, Francesco Crisà, Giorgio De Simoni +5
Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstandin…
Spontaneous symmetry breaking-induced thermospin effect in superconducting tunnel junctions
Gaia Germanese, Federico Paolucci, Giampiero Marchegiani +2
We discuss the charge and the spin tunneling currents between two Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, where one density of states is spin-split. In the presence of a l…
GHz Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors for Dark Matter Search
Federico Paolucci, Francesco Giazotto
The composition of dark matter is one of the puzzling topics in astrophysics. To address this issue, several experiments searching for the existence of axions have been designed, b…
Fully superconducting Josephson bolometers for gigahertz astronomy
Federico Paolucci, Nadia Ligato, Gaia Germanese +2
The origin and the evolution of the universe are concealed in the evanescent diffuse extragalactic background radiation (DEBRA). To reveal these signals, the development of innovat…
Development of highly sensitive nanoscale transition edge sensors for gigahertz astronomy and dark matter search
Federico Paolucci, Vittorio Buccheri, Gaia Germanese +9
Terahertz and sub-terahertz band detection has a key role both in fundamental interactions physics and technological applications, such as medical imaging, industrial quality contr…
Preliminary demonstration of a persistent Josephson phase-slip memory cell with topological protection
N. Ligato, E. Strambini, F. Paolucci +1
Superconducting computing promises enhanced computational power in both classical and quantum approaches. Yet, scalable and fast superconducting memories are not implemented. Here,…
Hypersensitive tunable Josephson escape sensor for gigahertz astronomy
Federico Paolucci, Nadia Ligato, Vittorio Buccheri +3
Sensitive photon detection in the gigahertz band constitutes the cornerstone to study different phenomena in astronomy, such as radio burst sources, galaxy formation, cosmic microw…
Field-Effect Control of Metallic Superconducting Systems
Federico Paolucci, Giorgio De Simoni, Paolo Solinas +4
Despite metals are believed to be insensitive to field-effect and conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theories predict the electric field to be ineffective on conventional…
Electron cooling with graphene-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions and applications to fast bolometry
Francesco Vischi, Matteo Carrega, Alessandro Braggio +4
Electronic cooling in hybrid normal metal-insulator-superconductor junctions is a promising technology for the manipulation of thermal loads in solid state nanosystems. One of the…
Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer
Federico Paolucci, Francesco Vischi, Giorgio De Simoni +3
Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, a…