Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors

T Puig, J Gutierrez, X Obradors - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract High-temperature superconducting REBa2Cu3O7 (RE= rare earth or yttrium)
coated conductors have emerged as a new class of materials with exceptional physical …

3DSC-a dataset of superconductors including crystal structures

T Sommer, R Willa, J Schmalian, P Friederich - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Data-driven methods, in particular machine learning, can help to speed up the discovery of
new materials by finding hidden patterns in existing data and using them to identify …

Dynamical vortex transitions in a gate-tunable two-dimensional Josephson junction array

CGL Bøttcher, F Nichele, J Shabani, CJ Palmstrøm… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We explore vortex dynamics in a two-dimensional Josephson junction array of micron-size
superconducting islands fabricated from an epitaxial Al/InAs superconductor-semiconductor …

Effects of nonmagnetic impurities and subgap states on the kinetic inductance, complex conductivity, quality factor, and depairing current density

T Kubo - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We investigate how a combination of a nonmagnetic impurity scattering rate γ and finite
subgap states parametrized by Dynes Γ affects various physical quantities relevant to …

Thickness dependence of the flux-flow velocity and the vortex instability in nanocrystalline γ-Mo2N thin films

N Haberkorn - Thin Solid Films, 2022 - Elsevier
The influence of the thickness on the vortex instability of nanocrystalline γ-Mo 2 N thin films
is analyzed. The samples were grown on Si (100) using reactive sputtering. The …

Nematically templated vortex lattices in superconducting FeSe

SY Song, C Hua, L Bell, W Ko, H Fangohr, J Yan… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
New pathways to controlling the morphology of superconducting vortex lattices─ and their
subsequent dynamics─ are required to guide and scale vortex world-lines into a computing …

[HTML][HTML] Suppression of flux avalanches in YBCO superconducting thin films by coating metal investigated using magneto-optical imaging

Q Ran, Z Jing, L Shen, J Zhou, C Liu, Z Zhang, X Zhang - Superconductivity, 2024 - Elsevier
Flux avalanches, prevalently existing in superconducting thin films, can cause catastrophic
breakdowns of electromagnetic properties and even irreversible damage to …

A new high parallel-field spectrometer at TRIUMF's β-NMR facility

E Thoeng, RML McFadden, S Saminathan… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A new high field spectrometer has been built to extend the capabilities of the β-detected
nuclear magnetic resonance (β-NMR) facility at TRIUMF. This new beamline extension …

Probing the Quasiparticle Relaxation Time in Ultrathin NbN Microbridges via Larkin–Ovchinnikov Instability Near Tc

N Haberkorn, Y Lee, C Lee, J Yun… - ACS Applied …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate the Larkin–Ovchinnikov instability in epitaxial NbN microbridges, focusing on
the impact of structural homogeneity on vortex dissipation. Analyzing current–voltage curves …

Revealing the Microscopic Mechanism of Elementary Vortex Pinning in Superconductors

C Chen, Y Liu, Y Chen, YN Hu, TZ Zhang, D Li, X Wang… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Vortex pinning is a crucial factor that determines the critical current of practical
superconductors and enables their diverse applications. However, the underlying …