Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
29 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 21 04 2023
accepted: 19 10 2023
pubmed: 30 11 2023
medline: 30 11 2023
entrez: 29 11 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Hybridizing superconductivity with the quantum Hall (QH) effect has notable potential for designing circuits capable of inducing and manipulating non-Abelian states for topological quantum computation

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pubmed: 38030729
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06764-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06764-4
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Hadrien Vignaud (H)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

David Perconte (D)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Wenmin Yang (W)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Bilal Kousar (B)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Edouard Wagner (E)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Frédéric Gay (F)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Kenji Watanabe (K)

Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Takashi Taniguchi (T)

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Hervé Courtois (H)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Zheng Han (Z)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.
State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, People's Republic of China.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.

Hermann Sellier (H)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.

Benjamin Sacépé (B)

Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France. benjamin.sacepe@neel.cnrs.fr.

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