Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

Superconducting materials and devices grown by focused ion and electron beam induced deposition

P Orús, F Sigloch, S Sangiao, JM De Teresa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since its discovery in 1911, superconductivity has represented an equally inciting and
fascinating field of study in several areas of physics and materials science, ranging from its …

Gate-tunable critical current of the three-dimensional niobium nanobridge Josephson junction

S Yu, L Chen, Y Pan, Y Wang, D Zhang, G Wu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent studies have shown that the critical currents of several metallic superconducting
nanowires and Dayem bridges can be locally tuned by using a gate voltage (V g). Here, we …

Electrostatic field-driven supercurrent suppression in ionic-gated metallic superconducting nanotransistors

F Paolucci, F Crisá, G De Simoni, L Bours, C Puglia… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic
nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstanding …

Signatures of gate-driven out-of-equilibrium superconductivity in Ta/InAs nanowires

T Elalaily, M Berke, M Kedves, G Fülöp… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the microscopic origin of the gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) in
superconducting nanobridges is crucial for engineering superconducting switches suitable …

Gate-controlled supercurrent effect in dry-etched Dayem bridges of non-centrosymmetric niobium rhenium

J Koch, C Cirillo, S Battisti, L Ruf, ZM Kakhaki, A Paghi… - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The application of a gate voltage to control the superconducting current flowing through a
nanoscale superconducting constriction, named as gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS), has …

Effects of fabrication routes and material parameters on the control of superconducting currents by gate voltage

L Ruf, T Elalaily, C Puglia, YP Ivanov, F Joint, M Berke… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The control of a superconducting current via the application of a gate voltage has been
recently demonstrated in a variety of superconducting devices. Although the mechanism …

Destroying superconductivity in thin films with an electric field

A Amoretti, DK Brattan, N Magnoli, L Martinoia… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
In this paper, we use a Ginzburg-Landau approach to show that a suitably strong electric
field can drive a phase transition from a superconductor to a normal metal. The transition is …

Magneto-topological transitions in multicomponent superconductors

Y Yerin, SL Drechsler, M Cuoco, C Petrillo - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Multicomponent spin-singlet superconductors with competing 0-and π-pairing couplings, as
in s++ and s±phases, are close to instabilities with a spontaneous breaking of time-reversal …

High Orbital‐Moment Cooper Pairs by Crystalline Symmetry Breaking

MT Mercaldo, C Ortix, M Cuoco - Advanced Quantum …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The pairing structure of superconducting materials is regulated by the point group
symmetries of the crystal. The spin‐singlet multiorbital superconductivity of materials with …