Circuit quantum electrodynamics of granular aluminum resonators

N Maleeva, L Grünhaupt, T Klein… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Granular aluminum (grAl) is a promising high kinetic inductance material for detectors,
amplifiers, and qubits. Here we model the grAl structure, consisting of pure aluminum grains …

Review of recent progress on THz spectroscopy of quantum materials: superconductors, magnetic and topological materials

A Bera, S Bera, S Kalimuddin, S Gayen… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, the THz spectroscopy has been efficiently used to investigate varieties of quantum
materials, including superconductors, novel magnetic, and topological materials. These …

Enhanced Cooper pairing versus suppressed phase coherence shaping the superconducting dome in coupled aluminum nanograins

US Pracht, N Bachar, L Benfatto, G Deutscher, E Farber… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The development of the fundamental superconducting (SC) energy scales—the SC energy
gap Δ and the superfluid stiffness J—of granular aluminum, ie, thin films composed of …

Nonrelativistic dynamics of the amplitude (Higgs) mode in superconductors

T Cea, C Castellani, G Seibold, L Benfatto - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Despite the formal analogy with the Higgs particle, the amplitude fluctuations of the order
parameter in weakly coupled superconductors do not identify a real mode with a Lorentz …

Aluminium-oxide wires for superconducting high kinetic inductance circuits

H Rotzinger, ST Skacel, M Pfirrmann… - Superconductor …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate thin films of conducting aluminium-oxide, also known as granular aluminium,
as a material for superconducting high quality, high kinetic inductance circuits. The films are …

Eliminating quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires

JN Voss, Y Schön, M Wildermuth, D Dorer, JH Cole… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In systems with reduced dimensions, quantum fluctuations have a strong influence on the
electronic conduction, even at very low temperatures. In superconductors, this is especially …

Optical signatures of the superconducting Goldstone mode in granular aluminum: Experiments and theory

US Pracht, T Cea, N Bachar, G Deutscher, E Farber… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Recent advances in the experimental growth and control of disordered thin films,
heterostructures, and interfaces provide fertile ground for the observation and …

Application of the Mattis-Bardeen theory in strongly disordered superconductors

G Seibold, L Benfatto, C Castellani - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The low-energy optical conductivity of conventional superconductors is usually well
described by Mattis-Bardeen (MB) theory, which predicts the onset of absorption above an …

Optical conductivity of granular aluminum films near the Mott metal-to-insulator transition

AG Moshe, E Farber, G Deutscher - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We report measurements of the energy gap of granular aluminum films by THz
spectroscopy. We find that as the grains progressively decouple, the coupling ratio 2 Δ (0)/k …

Superconducting energy scales and anomalous dissipative conductivity in thin films of molybdenum nitride

J Simmendinger, US Pracht, L Daschke, T Proslier… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We report investigations of molybdenum nitride (MoN) thin films with different thickness and
disorder and with superconducting transition temperature 9.89 K≥ T c≥ 2.78 K. Using …