{"title":"Cross-Coupling First-Order Gradient Superconducting Quantum Interference Device for Current Sensing","authors":"Qing Chen, Qing Zhong, Wei Li, Wenhui Cao, Jinjin Li, Jianting Zhao, Da Xu","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03182-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03182-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>High sensitivity and low noise of superconducting quantum interference devices make them ideal for reading the minute changes in resistance of a transition-edge sensor, which occurs when it absorbs energy or power. A series of first-order gradient, cross-coupling octagonal SQUIDs specifically tailored for use in TES were developed and fabricated for the advantage of lower parasitic capacitance compared with the overlap-coupling ones. It is obtained that a lower screening parameter and increased shunt resistance per junction lead to a higher flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient. This enhancement significantly boosts detection sensitivity and effectively minimizes noise contributions from electronics operating at room temperature. The low-temperature measurement results of the sample with an input coil of 3.5 turns indicate that a small device current white noise of 4.8 pA/√Hz, a device flux white noise of 1.1 μΦ<sub>0</sub>/√Hz, and an optimal flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient of 338.2 μV/Φ<sub>0</sub> are achieved. The bandwidth of a SQUID current sensor with a smaller inductance of the input coil and a larger shunt resistance exceeds 10 MHz. SQUID current sensors, featuring octagonal structures with the first-order gradient cross-coupling, exhibit low flux noise, low current noise, and a high flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient, which can satisfy the requirements of TES applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548527","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}
Assaad Elouafi, Sara Ezairi, Fatima Lmai, Abdeslam Tizliouine
{"title":"Low Working Temperature of Erbium Orthophosphate ErPO4 with Large Magnetocaloric Effect","authors":"Assaad Elouafi, Sara Ezairi, Fatima Lmai, Abdeslam Tizliouine","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03183-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03183-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Erbium orthophosphate ErPO<sub>4</sub> was successfully prepared. The XRD pattern analyses have proved that the ErPO<sub>4</sub> crystallizes in the tetragonal structure (I4<sub>1</sub>/amd). Under a magnetic field of 50 kOe, the magnetic entropy change (− Δ<i>S</i><sub>M</sub>) reaches 23.78 J/kg K at 2.6 K for ErPO<sub>4</sub>. The value of the relative cooling power is 475 J/kg. The lowest temperature and the large MCE have inferred that ErPO<sub>4</sub> is a potential candidate for sub-kelvin magnetic refrigeration applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548529","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}
Huiqin Yun, Ze Li, Xiang Jin, Jianjun Zhao, Jingshun Liu
{"title":"Study of the Magnetocaloric Effect and Critical Behavior in Double Perovskite Manganese Oxides Pr1.5A0.5Mn2O6 (A = Mg, Ba)","authors":"Huiqin Yun, Ze Li, Xiang Jin, Jianjun Zhao, Jingshun Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03184-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03184-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, polycrystalline samples of Pr<sub>2</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub> (parent phase) and Pr<sub>1.5</sub>A<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub> (A = Mg, Ba) were prepared using the high-temperature solid-phase reaction method. The effects of Mg and Ba doping on magnetocaloric properties and critical behavior of the parent phase were systematically investigated. Under a magnetic field of 7 T, the relative cooling power (RCP) values of Pr<sub>2</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub>, Pr<sub>1.5</sub>Mg<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub>, and Pr<sub>1.5</sub>Ba<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub> were approximately 483.46 J·kg<sup>−1</sup>, 428.22 J·kg<sup>−1</sup>, and 479.88 J·kg<sup>−1</sup>, respectively. The critical behavior analysis revealed that the parent phase showed short-range exchange interactions, while Pr<sub>1.5</sub>A<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub> (A = Mg, Ba) exhibited long-range exchange interactions. The temperature dependence of the order parameter <i>n</i> was studied under different magnetic fields, confirming the phase transition types and validating the accuracy of the critical exponents obtained. The research findings suggest that both the parent phase and Ba-doped ceramics at the A-site hold promise as magnetic refrigeration materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141522835","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}
K. R. Woo, J. S. Chung, D. Hwang, J. Jeon, H. B. Kim, H. J. Kim, H. Kim, M. B. Kim, Y. Kim, Y. M. Kim, D. Kwon, D. Y. Lee, S. H. Lee, Y. C. Lee, H. Lim
{"title":"Correction: Thermal Model Improvement in Phonon Detection Channels Using a Scintillating Crystal","authors":"K. R. Woo, J. S. Chung, D. Hwang, J. Jeon, H. B. Kim, H. J. Kim, H. Kim, M. B. Kim, Y. Kim, Y. M. Kim, D. Kwon, D. Y. Lee, S. H. Lee, Y. C. Lee, H. Lim","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03172-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-024-03172-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141709489","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":"Design Considerations for the Optimization of $$lambda$$ -SQUIDs","authors":"Constantin Schuster, Sebastian Kempf","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03180-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-024-03180-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cryogenic microcalorimeters are key tools for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy due to their excellent energy resolution and quantum efficiency close to 100%. Multiple types of microcalorimeters exist, some of which have already proven outstanding performance. Nevertheless, they cannot yet compete with cutting-edge grating or crystal spectrometers. For this reason, novel microcalorimeter concepts are continuously developed. One such concept is based on the strong temperature dependence of the magnetic penetration depth of a superconductor operated close to its transition temperature. This so-called <span>(lambda)</span>-SQUID provides an in-situ tunable gain and promises to reach sub-eV energy resolution. Here, we present some design considerations with respect to the optimization of such a detector that are derived by analytic means. We particularly show that for this detector concept the heat capacity of the sensor should match the heat capacity of the absorber.</p>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141522836","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}
Sergey V. Uchaikin, Jinmyeong Kim, Boris I. Ivanov, Arjan F. van Loo, Yasunobu Nakamura, Saebyeok Ahn, Seonjeong Oh, Seongtae Park, Andrei Matlashov, Woohyun Chung, Yannis K. Semertzidis
{"title":"Improving Amplification Bandwidth by Combining Josephson Parametric Amplifiers for Active Axion Search Experiments at IBS/CAPP","authors":"Sergey V. Uchaikin, Jinmyeong Kim, Boris I. Ivanov, Arjan F. van Loo, Yasunobu Nakamura, Saebyeok Ahn, Seonjeong Oh, Seongtae Park, Andrei Matlashov, Woohyun Chung, Yannis K. Semertzidis","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03090-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03090-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research at the Institute for Basic Science in Republic of Korea is home to multiple active axion search experiments using cavity haloscopes that operate within the frequency range of 1–6 GHz. The haloscopes convert axions to photons, resulting in an output power of about 10<span>({^{-24}})</span>–10<span>({^{-22}})</span> W. To detect such a small signal amidst noise, quantum-limited noise amplifiers and ultra-low-temperature environment (a few tenths of mK) are required for all critical readout components to minimize noise from all active and passive lossy components. Our primary objective is to achieve the highest possible scanning-frequency speed, which includes the time for maintenance and system calibration. This paper presents the development and operation of low-noise amplifiers for haloscope experiments targeting different frequency ranges and provides design, operational, and performance details of the amplifiers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03090-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501209","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}
A. I. Golov, V. B. Efimov, A. A. Levchenko, L. P. Mezhov-Deglin
{"title":"Charge Motion in Solid Helium","authors":"A. I. Golov, V. B. Efimov, A. A. Levchenko, L. P. Mezhov-Deglin","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03160-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03160-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We overview and discuss several advances in the understanding of the motion of ions through solid helium. Positive and negative ions in solid helium are microscopic complexes with internal structures embedded into the host crystal lattice. Their low-field mobilities normally decrease with cooling in both bcc and hcp crystals of either isotope of helium (<span>(^3)</span>He and <span>(^4)</span>He). Depending on the density of solid helium (as well as, in the case of positive ions in hcp <span>(^4)</span>He, on the crystal orientation), the corresponding activation energies for the mobility of the two species of ions may or may not coincide, and they are found to be typically either equal to or about twice the vacancy creation energy. In strong electric fields, the field dependence of the drift velocity of ions is often nonlinear but monotonic. However, for positive ions in hcp <span>(^4)</span>He, non-monotonic anomalies in both temperature and field dependences of the drift velocity were observed. We discuss these features within the framework of the theory of ion motion via inelastic scattering of low-energy vacancions put forward by Alexander Andreev and co-workers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03160-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501208","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}
Rubén Seoane Souto, Dushko Kuzmanovski, Ignacio Sardinero, Pablo Burset, Alexander V. Balatsky
{"title":"P-wave Pairing Near a Spin-Split Josephson Junction","authors":"Rubén Seoane Souto, Dushko Kuzmanovski, Ignacio Sardinero, Pablo Burset, Alexander V. Balatsky","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03176-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03176-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Superconductivity and magnetism are competing effects that can coexist in certain regimes. Their co-existence leads to unexpected new behaviors that include the onset of exotic electron pair mechanisms and topological phases. In this work, we study the properties of a Josephson junction between two spin-split superconductors. The spin-splitting in the superconductors can arise from either the coupling to a ferromagnetic material or an external magnetic field. The properties of the junction are dominated by the Andreev bound states that are also split. One of these states can cross the superconductor’s Fermi level, leading to a ground-state transition characterized by a suppressed supercurrent. We interpret the supercurrent blockade as coming from a dominance of p-wave pairing close to the junction, where the electrons are at both sides. To support this interpretation, we analyze the different pairing channels and show that p-wave pairing is favored in the case where the magnetization of the two superconductors is parallel and suppressed in the anti-parallel case. We also analyze the noise spectrum that shows signatures of the ground-state transition in the form of an elevated zero-frequency noise.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03176-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501211","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}
{"title":"Effects of Substrate Corrugation During Helium Adsorption on Graphene in the Grand Canonical Ensemble","authors":"Gage Erwin, Adrian Del Maestro","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03156-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03156-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adsorption of <span>({}^4)</span>He on graphene substrates has been a topic of great interest due to the intriguing effects of graphene corrugation on the manifestation of commensurate solid and exotic phases in low-dimensional systems. In this study, we employ worm algorithm quantum Monte Carlo to study helium adsorbed on a graphene substrate to explore corrugation effects in the grand canonical ensemble. We utilized a Szalewicz potential for helium–helium interactions and a summation of isotropic interactions between helium and carbon atoms to construct a helium–graphene potential. We implement different levels of approximation to achieve a smooth potential, three partially corrugated potentials, and a fully ab initio potential to test the effects of corrugation on the first and second layers. We demonstrate that the omission of corrugation within the helium–graphene potential could lead to finite-size effects in both the first and second layers. Thus, a fully corrugated potential should be used when simulating helium in this low-dimensional regime.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501210","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}
Louis H. Marting, Kenichi Karatsu, Akira Endo, Jochem J. A. Baselmans, Alejandro Pascual Laguna
{"title":"Correction: Directional Filter Design and Simulation for Superconducting On-Chip Filter-Banks","authors":"Louis H. Marting, Kenichi Karatsu, Akira Endo, Jochem J. A. Baselmans, Alejandro Pascual Laguna","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03162-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03162-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03162-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141522794","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}