Induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures
Abstract
Search for Majorana fermions renewed interest in semiconductor–superconductor interfaces, while a quest for higher-order non-Abelian excitations demands formation of superconducting contacts to materials with fractionalized excitations, such as a two-dimensional electron gas in a fractional quantum Hall regime. Here we report induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures and development of highly transparent semiconductor–superconductor ohmic contacts. Supercurrent with characteristic temperature dependence of a ballistic junction has been observed across 0.6 μm, a regime previously achieved only in point contacts but essential to the formation of well separated non-Abelian states. High critical fields (>16 T) in NbN contacts enables investigation of an interplay between superconductivity and strongly correlated states in a two-dimensional electron gas at high magnetic fields.
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Dept. of Materials Engineering. Birck Nanotechnology Center
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Birck Nanotechnology Center
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1455140
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008630; SC0006671; DMR-1307247; GBMF 4420
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Wan, Zhong, Kazakov, Aleksandr, Manfra, Michael J., Pfeiffer, Loren N., West, Ken W., and Rokhinson, Leonid P. Induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms8426.
Wan, Zhong, Kazakov, Aleksandr, Manfra, Michael J., Pfeiffer, Loren N., West, Ken W., & Rokhinson, Leonid P. Induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8426
Wan, Zhong, Kazakov, Aleksandr, Manfra, Michael J., Pfeiffer, Loren N., West, Ken W., and Rokhinson, Leonid P. Thu .
"Induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8426. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1455140.
@article{osti_1455140,
title = {Induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures},
author = {Wan, Zhong and Kazakov, Aleksandr and Manfra, Michael J. and Pfeiffer, Loren N. and West, Ken W. and Rokhinson, Leonid P.},
abstractNote = {Search for Majorana fermions renewed interest in semiconductor–superconductor interfaces, while a quest for higher-order non-Abelian excitations demands formation of superconducting contacts to materials with fractionalized excitations, such as a two-dimensional electron gas in a fractional quantum Hall regime. Here we report induced superconductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in gallium arsenide heterostructures and development of highly transparent semiconductor–superconductor ohmic contacts. Supercurrent with characteristic temperature dependence of a ballistic junction has been observed across 0.6 μm, a regime previously achieved only in point contacts but essential to the formation of well separated non-Abelian states. High critical fields (>16 T) in NbN contacts enables investigation of an interplay between superconductivity and strongly correlated states in a two-dimensional electron gas at high magnetic fields.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms8426},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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