{"title":"On the path to superconductor broadband receivers","authors":"Nikolay V. Kolotinskiy, Victor K. Kornev","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354467","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We review progress in developing software-defined radio communication systems through using superconductive rf and digital technologies. Both the outstanding sensitivity and high spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of the state-of-the-arts superconductor analog-to-digital converters (ADC) enable broadband receiving systems with direct signal digitizing and subsequent digital extraction of sub-bands. To raise the overall system performance up to the outstanding performance of superconductor ADC, one can use an active superconductor electrically-small antenna (ESA) instead of standard passive antenna with a low-noise amplifier, both providing lower performance as compared to the ADC. The attainable characteristics and design issues of the superconductor active ESAs are reviewed and discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"618 ","pages":"Article 1354467"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139743778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yunhao Mei , Qingyun Liu , Huiyu Du , Yufu Zhou , Zhengrong Liu , Lei Mo , Bensheng Qiu , Qing Zhang
{"title":"Electromagnetic design of MRI superconducting magnet based on novel hybrid optimization methods","authors":"Yunhao Mei , Qingyun Liu , Huiyu Du , Yufu Zhou , Zhengrong Liu , Lei Mo , Bensheng Qiu , Qing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper proposes a novel hybrid optimization algorithm that combines linear programming (LP), genetic algorithm (GA), and nonlinear programming (NLP) to achieve the optimal design of highly homogeneous superconducting magnets for MRI systems. Initially, the predetermined rectangular region is divided into an array of superconductor coils. Then, linear programming is utilized to minimize the consumption of superconducting conductors as the objective function and to obtain the nonzero current regions by considering the field peak-to-peak uniformity in the diameter of the spherical volume (DSV) and the range of the 5 Gauss stray field as constraints. Subsequently, the genetic algorithm is employed to convert the nonzero current regions into coils with rectangular cross-sections. Finally, the NLP is applied to adjust the position of each coil to obtain the magnet criteria. An illustrative example is provided: an actively shielded MRI superconducting magnet with a center field strength of 1.5 T. The effectiveness of this optimization method is demonstrated through the design, electromagnetic analysis, and stress analysis conducted on this example.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"617 ","pages":"Article 1354425"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139674924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model of a superconducting spin valve with insulating layers","authors":"A.A. Kamashev, A.A. Validov, N.N. Garif'yanov, I.A. Garifullin","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354461","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354461","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Two different types of superconducting spin valve structures CoO</span><sub>x</sub>/Co1/I1/Pb/I2/Co2 (where I1 and I2 are insulating layers) and CoO<sub>x</sub>/Co1/Pb/Co2 were investigated. Obtained results for CoO<sub>x</sub>/Co1/I1/Pb/I2/Co2 structures demonstrate the full superconducting spin valve effect with a fairly significant effect value. The superconducting spin valve effect was absent for the same structure without insulating layers (CoO<sub>x</sub><span>/Co1/Pb/Co2), since the superconductivity was suppressed. The absence of insulating layers between the ferromagnetic and superconducting layers leads to a significant suppression of superconductivity and, as a consequence, to the destruction of the superconducting spin valve effect.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"618 ","pages":"Article 1354461"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139668045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C.A. Aguirre , P. Díaz , D. Laroze , A.S. Mosquera Polo , J. Barba-Ortega
{"title":"Vortex state in a 3D superconducting mesoscopic wedge","authors":"C.A. Aguirre , P. Díaz , D. Laroze , A.S. Mosquera Polo , J. Barba-Ortega","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354450","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354450","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the present paper, we study the effect of the boundary conditions (deGennes-parameter <span><math><mi>b</mi></math></span>) on the magnetization (<strong>M</strong>), critical fields <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>, and Cooper pair density <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> in a three-dimensional superconducting meso-wedge, solving the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equations <span><math><mi>TDGL</mi></math></span><span>. These equations are solved by taking into account the demagnetization<span> effects. We show that the slope of the superconducting meso-wedge can be used to control the vortex (fluxoids </span></span><span><math><mi>Φ</mi></math></span><span>) configurations, such as the side through which the magnetic flux enters the sample.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"618 ","pages":"Article 1354450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Siqi Li , Minghui Niu , Huanli Liu , Xiaoping Gao , Liliang Ying , Jie Ren
{"title":"Periodic-threshold amalgamated quasi-one-junction SQUID comparator","authors":"Siqi Li , Minghui Niu , Huanli Liu , Xiaoping Gao , Liliang Ying , Jie Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article proposes a periodic-threshold superconductive comparator named amalgamated quasi-one-junction SQUID comparator (AQOS) for sensitivity enhancement. The comparator employs a pair of compound Josephson-junction SQUID with magnetically-controlled effective critical current in quantization to relieve the constraints on the period current without disrupting the non-hysteresis operation state. As a result, the AQOS comparator can achieve three times more comparing operations than the quasi-one-junction SQUID (QOS) comparators, corresponding to a 9 dB sensitivity improvement. The AQOS comparator also adopts the complementary structure and feedback-free topology for linearity and robustness. It can reach a 30 GS/s sampling rate, 0.5 mA period current, −25 dBm sensitivity, more than ±10 % bias current margin, deviation of quantization current peak-to-peak magnitude that is about 10 % of the mean, and the 4.4 dB average DC duty bias margin in simulation from 1 GHz to 30 GHz with a process of 6 kA/cm<sup>2</sup> Josephson critical current density. A 2-bit AQOS comparator has been fabricated with the SIMIT Nb03 process for the qualification test. It has passed functional tests at low frequency, and its performance metrics, including period current, sensitivity, and bias current margin, have also been proven.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"618 ","pages":"Article 1354445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139509632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First-principles study on the electronic structure and optical properties of orthorhombic CaTiO3 under different pressures","authors":"Xinping Guo , Yongbo Li , Wenbo Xiao , Huaming Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The lattice constants, band structure, density of states (DOS), and optical properties of orthorhombic CaTiO</span><sub>3</sub> in the pressure range of 0–100 GPa were calculated using the GGA-PBE method based on first-principles in this study. Geometry structure optimization results show that with an increase in pressure, the lattice constants of orthorhombic CaTiO<sub>3</sub> decrease and the band gap (E<sub>g</sub>) value increases. However, increasing pressure does not change the type of band gap in orthorhombic CaTiO<sub>3</sub><span>, which remains a direct band gap with the valence band maximum (VBM) and conduction band minimum (CBM) both located at the G point. The calculated electronic structure results indicate a gradual decrease in the DOS peak intensity for Ca–p, Ca–d, O–s, and O–p orbitals with increasing pressure, while the DOS peak intensity for the Ti atom remains relatively stable. Meanwhile, the valence band near the Fermi level shifts to the lower energies, while the conduction band shifts to the higher energies. Further calculations show that the optical properties exhibit a consistent blue shift as pressure increases. The research findings reveal that orthorhombic CaTiO</span><sub>3</sub><span> demonstrates low absorption of visible light and high absorption of ultraviolet (UV) light. Moreover, as the pressure increases, the absorption of visible light further diminishes, while the absorption of UV light gradually intensifies. The findings presented in this paper offer significant insights for investigating the electronic structure and optical properties of orthorhombic CaTiO</span><sub>3</sub> under varying pressure conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"617 ","pages":"Article 1354447"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139487825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hysteresis loops in measurements of the magnetic moment of hydrides under high pressure: Implications for superconductivity","authors":"J.E. Hirsch","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Measurements of magnetic moments of hydride materials under high pressure have been claimed to prove the existence of superconductivity in these materials (Drozdov et al., 2015; Minkov et al., 2021; Minkov et al., 2022; Minkov et al., 2023; Eremets et al., 2022) . However, detection of the signal from the small sample requires subtraction of a large background contribution whose details are largely unknown. Here we analyze reported measurements and point out that the resulting hysteresis loops are incompatible with the conclusion that they result from superconductivity, independent of what assumptions are made about the background signal. We argue that this also invalidates the conclusion that the magnetic moment measured after the external magnetic field is turned off is evidence for trapped magnetic flux resulting from superconducting currents, as proposed in Minkov et al. (2023). Our results imply that to date no magnetic evidence for the existence of high temperature superconductivity in hydrides under pressure exists, despite multiple claims to the contrary.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"617 ","pages":"Article 1354449"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921453424000145/pdfft?md5=501b29fb90757998855b0f5deef313e2&pid=1-s2.0-S0921453424000145-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isaías G. de Oliveira, Jonathan S. de Morais, Paloma F. Ferreira
{"title":"The local rupture of the superconductivity and the curvature of the mesoscopic sample","authors":"Isaías G. de Oliveira, Jonathan S. de Morais, Paloma F. Ferreira","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2024.1354436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article we revisit a well-known effect in superconductors, which is the penetration of the magnetic field by regions of greater radius of curvature (Tinkham, 2008; De Gennes, 1966). This is exposed in the literature but without a quantitative solution. Here we solve this problem by two distinct numerical simulations. We calculate the superconducting current density using numerical simulations via the London theory in the Meissner state and numerical simulations using the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau (TDGL) theory for the vortex<span> state. In both simulations, the results obtained are in agreement, as could not be otherwise. We show that in the Meissner state the current density increases much faster in the region where the radius of curvature is larger, thus reaching the critical value first in this location, and therefore local breakdown of superconductivity occurs. In the vortex state, our simulations, using TDGL, show that the vortices penetrate through exactly the same location pointed out by the previous simulation. For this study we worked with a superconducting needle with an ellipsoidal mesoscopic cross section.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"617 ","pages":"Article 1354436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139434484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yingyi Shao , Huiwu Wang , Wei Peng , Jie Ren , Zhen Wang
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of sub-micron high current density NbN Josephson junctions for large-scale digital circuits","authors":"Yingyi Shao , Huiwu Wang , Wei Peng , Jie Ren , Zhen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>We have developed a fabrication process based on Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) for the sub-micron NbN Josephson junctions on single-crystal MgO substrates. The NbN junctions were fabricated with epitaxial NbN/AlN/NbN trilayers deposited by reactive DC </span>magnetron sputtering. The top electrode of the junction was exposed using CMP to contact the NbN wire without opening the submicron via through the dielectric. It has produced submicron NbN junctions with areas as small as 0.09 μm</span><sup>2</sup><span>. We have fabricated NbN tunnel junctions with a wide range of critical current density </span><em>J</em><sub>c</sub><span>. The NbN junctions show excellent Josephson tunneling characteristics, the gap voltage </span><em>V</em><sub>g</sub> is 5.8 mV and the quality factor <em>R</em><sub>sg</sub>/<em>R</em><sub>n</sub> is 12 for the junctions with a <em>J</em><sub>c</sub> of 10.7 kA/cm<sup>2</sup>, and <em>V</em><sub>g</sub> is 5.3 mV and <em>R</em><sub>sg</sub>/<em>R</em><sub>n</sub> is 4 for the junctions with a <em>J</em><sub>c</sub> of 150.5 kA/cm<sup>2</sup>. The 1000-junction arrays were fabricated and their <em>I</em>-<em>V</em> characteristics were measured, critical current uniformity was obtained and the standard deviation is about 5%. The high <em>J</em><sub>c</sub> sub-micron NbN junctions will be helpful in developing large-scale NbN SFQ circuits with high operating frequency.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"616 ","pages":"Article 1354434"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139056896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of induced currents in a type-II superconducting cylinder of finite length in a transverse magnetic field","authors":"Yuriy Zhilichev","doi":"10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Induced currents in the bulk superconducting cylinder of finite length placed in a transverse magnetic field are calculated by the partial and complete separation of variables. The Fourier transform over the angular and axial coordinates reduces the problem to the solution of one-dimensional integral equations. The harmonic balance method is applied to account for the highly nonlinear constitutive relation between the voltage and current. The current and field distribution is compared with the results of FEA. The approximation of the current distribution by a set of cylindrical and disc layers is presented. The magnetic moment of induced currents is analyzed in the increasing applied field when the cylinder is magnetized up to the state of saturation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20159,"journal":{"name":"Physica C-superconductivity and Its Applications","volume":"616 ","pages":"Article 1354423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139050334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}