Frontiers of nanoelectronics: intrinsic Josephson effect and prospects of superconducting spintronics

• Anatolie S. Sidorenko,
• Horst Hahn and
• Vladimir Krasnov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 79–82, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.9

• applications, such as: Plasma modes in capacitively coupled superconducting nanowires have been predicted [24]. It has been demonstrated that in the presence of inter-wire coupling plasma modes, each of the modes get split into two "new" modes propagating with different velocities across the system. The

Plasma modes in capacitively coupled superconducting nanowires

• Alex Latyshev,
• Andrew G. Semenov and
• Andrei D. Zaikin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 292–297, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.24

• Moscow, Russia Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.13.24 Abstract We investigate plasma oscillations in long electromagnetically coupled superconducting nanowires. We demonstrate that in the presence of inter

• the low-temperature behavior of the systems under consideration. Keywords: plasma modes; quantum fluctuations, quantum phase slips; superconducting nanowires; Introduction Physical properties of ultrathin superconducting nanowires differ strongly from those of bulk superconductors owing to a

• |Δ| in superconducting nanowires one finds [5]: where Rξ is the normal-state resistance of the wire segment of length equal to the superconducting coherence length ξ and Rq = 2π/e2 ≃ 25.8 kΩ is the quantum resistance unit. For generic metallic nanowires one typically has Rξ ≪ Rq, implying that

A review of defect engineering, ion implantation, and nanofabrication using the helium ion microscope

• Frances I. Allen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 633–664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.52

Functional nanostructures for electronics, spintronics and sensors

• Anatolie S. Sidorenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1704–1706, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.152

• coupled superconducting nanowires with quantum phase slips which may be used for interpretation of already existing experiments on meander-like nanowires and for the design of a novel set of superconducting sensors. Another very promising photon detector [16] was demonstrated for supersensitive detection

Superconductor–insulator transition in capacitively coupled superconducting nanowires

• Alex Latyshev,
• Andrew G. Semenov and
• Andrei D. Zaikin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1402–1408, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.124

• Moscow, Russia Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.11.124 Abstract We investigate superconductor–insulator quantum phase transitions in ultrathin capacitively coupled superconducting nanowires with

• superconductor–insulator phase transition in each of the wires is controlled not only by its own parameters but also by those of the neighboring wire as well as by mutual capacitance. We argue that superconducting nanowires with properly chosen parameters may turn insulating once they are brought sufficiently

• close to each other. Keywords: quantum phase slips; quantum phase transitions; RG equations; Introduction Quantum fluctuations dominate the physics of superconducting nanowires at sufficiently low temperatures making their behavior markedly different from that of bulk superconductors [1][2][3][4

Disorder-induced suppression of the zero-bias conductance peak splitting in topological superconducting nanowires

• Jun-Tong Ren,
• Hai-Feng Lü,
• Sha-Sha Ke,
• Yong Guo and
• Huai-Wu Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1358–1369, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.128

• -Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 10.3762/bjnano.9.128 Abstract We investigate the effect of three types of intrinsic disorder, including that in pairing energy, chemical potential, and hopping amplitude, on the transport properties through the superconducting nanowires

Andreev spectrum and supercurrents in nanowire-based SNS junctions containing Majorana bound states

• Jorge Cayao,
• Annica M. Black-Schaffer,
• Elsa Prada and
• Ramón Aguado

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1339–1357, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.127

• superconducting nanowires, while the SNS geometry of course allows a finite phase difference ≠ 0 across the junction. It was shown [1][2][46] that the nanowire with Rashba SOC and in proximity to an s-wave superconductor, described by Equation 2, contains a topological phase characterized by the emergence of