Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

Asymmetric higher-harmonic SQUID as a Josephson diode

YV Fominov, DS Mikhailov - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate asymmetric two-junction SQUIDs with different current-phase
relations in the two Josephson junctions, involving higher Josephson harmonics. Our main …

Half-integer Shapiro steps in highly transmissive InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions

A Iorio, A Crippa, B Turini, S Salimian, M Carrega… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We investigate a ballistic InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junction with Nb superconducting
contacts. The high transparency of the superconductor-semiconductor interfaces enables …

Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films

J Wang, W Powers, Z Zhang, M Smith, BJ McIntosh… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Topological superconductors have attracted tremendous excitement as they are predicted to
host Majorana zero modes that can be utilized for topological quantum computing …

Spectroscopic signatures of time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity

NR Poniatowski, JB Curtis, A Yacoby… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The collective mode spectrum of a symmetry-breaking state, such as a superconductor,
provides crucial insight into the nature of the order parameter. In this work, we study two …

Gate-tunable pairing channels in superconducting non-centrosymmetric oxides nanowires

G Singh, C Guarcello, E Lesne, D Winkler… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Two-dimensional SrTiO3-based interfaces stand out among non-centrosymmetric
superconductors due to their intricate interplay of gate-tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling …

Nanomolding of metastable Mo4P3

MT Kiani, QP Sam, G Jin, B Pamuk, HJ Han, JL Hart… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Reduced dimensionality leads to emergent phenomena in quantum materials, and there is a
need for accelerated materials discovery of nanoscale quantum materials in reduced …

Corner states, hinge states, and Majorana modes in SnTe nanowires

NM Nguyen, W Brzezicki, T Hyart - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
SnTe materials are one of the most flexible material platforms for exploring the interplay of
topology and different types of symmetry breaking. We study symmetry-protected topological …

" Smoking gun" signatures of topological milestones in trivial materials by measurement fine-tuning and data postselection

SM Frolov, P Zhang, B Zhang, Y Jiang, S Byard… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Exploring the topology of electronic bands is a way to realize new states of matter with
possible implications for information technology. Because bands cannot always be …

Seeing quantum materials with cryogenic transmission electron microscopy

JL Hart, JJ Cha - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this viewpoint we advocate in situ cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM)
as a characterization method for the growing field of quantum materials. Here, quantum …