Publications related to Pressure dependence of superconducting properties of layered BaNi2P2

Large impact of phonon lineshapes on the superconductivity of solid hydrogen

Phonon anharmonicity plays a crucial role in determining the stability and vibrational properties of high-pressure hydrides. Furthermore, strong anharmonicity can render phonon quasiparticle picture obsolete questioning standard approaches for modeling sup ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Thermoelectric power of overdoped Tl2201 crystals: charge density waves and T1 and T2 resistivities

Matthias Carsten Putzke

We report measurements of the in-plane thermoelectric power (TEP) for an overdoped (OD) crystal of the single layer cuprate superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+x (Tl2201) at several hole concentrations (p), from 300 or 400 K to below the superconducting transition t ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Validation and Application of Hysteresis Loss Model for HTS Stacks and Conductors for Fusion Applications

Nikolay Bykovskiy

Numerous conductor designs for pulsed magnets based on High Temperature Superconductors (HTS), featuring stacks of tapes are currently being proposed. A major contribution to the AC losses is expected to be given by hysteresis losses. Several numerical mod ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

The magnet feeders for the European DEMO fusion reactor: Conceptual design and recent advances

Rainer Wesche, Frédéric Michel, Roberto Guarino

The magnet feeders are part of the critical systems of a fusion reactor since they represent the interface between the in-cryostat components at 4.5 K and the room-temperature cryogenic plant and power supply. The European DEMO tokamak foresees 16 toroidal ...

2024

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

Zhenyu Wang

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Technology-Aware Logic Synthesis for Superconducting Electronics

Giovanni De Micheli, Dewmini Sudara Marakkalage, Siang-Yun Lee, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Mingfei Yu, Rassul Bairamkulov

Superconducting electronics provide us with cryogenic digital circuits that can rival established technologies in performance and energy consumption. Today, the lack of tools for the design of large-scale integrated superconducting circuits is a major obst ...

2024

Experimental study of stability, quench propagation and detection methods on 15 kA sub-scale HTS fusion conductors in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy, Ortensia Dicuonzo

High-temperature superconductors (HTSs) enable exclusive operating conditions for fusion magnets, boosting their performance up to 20 T generated magnetic fields in the temperature range from 4 K to 20 K. One of the main technological issues of HTS conduct ...

2023

Ion-Selective Scattering Studied Using the Variable-Energy Electron Irradiation in the Ba0.2K0.8Fe2As2 Superconductor

Yong Liu

Low-temperature variable-energy electron irradiation was used to induce non-magnetic disorder in a single crystal of a hole-doped iron-based superconductor, Ba1-xKxFe2As2, x = 0.80. To avoid systematic errors, the beam energy was adjusted non-consequently ...

MDPI2023

The MAgnet Design Explorer algorithm (MADE) for LTS, Hybrid or HTS toroidal and poloidal systems of a tokamak with a view to DEMO

The European Roadmap to Fusion Electricity (Federici et al., 2018) [1] details the path to complete within the next three decades the DEMOnstration power plant, DEMO, aiming to a net gain of Energy Q=40. The 2018 DEMO baseline considers a 2 GW tokamak devi ...

2023

FIB-Fabrication of Resonating Cantilevers to Explore Symmetry-Breaking in Quantum Materials

Amelia Emily-Kay Estry

Scientific progress and technological advancements on novel materials are often deterred by limitations on size and quality of samples. Materials with electronic phenomena attractive for applications, and presenting many open scientific questions, are ofte ...

EPFL2023

Progress in the design and manufacturing of the EDIPO 2 cryostat

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

A major upgrade of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which will allow the testing of superconducting samples both for fusion and for high-energy physics applications, is taking place at the Swiss Plasma Center. With a target background field of 15 ...

2023

Universal scaling of tunable Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states across the quantum phase transition

Klaus Kern, Haonan Huang

Quantum magnetic impurities give rise to a wealth of phenomena attracting tremendous research interest in recent years. On a normal metal, magnetic impurities generate the correlation-driven Kondo effect. On a superconductor, bound states emerge inside the ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Charge fluctuations in the intermediate-valence ground state of SmCoIn5

Nicola Colonna, Neeraj Kumar, Vladimir N. Strocov

The microscopic mechanism of heavy band formation, relevant for unconventional superconductivity in CeCoIn5 and other Ce-based heavy fermion materials, depends strongly on the efficiency with which f electrons are delocalized from the rare earth sites and ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

High-Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Technology for Quantum Applications

Simone Frasca

Superconducting materials present unique properties, which make a potential technological platform based on superconductors extremely appealing for a wide set of applications, both classical and not. Among these classes of materials, high-kinetic inductanc ...

EPFL2023

Impact of Hysteresis Losses in Hybrid (HTS-LTS) Coils for Fusion Applications

Davide Uglietti

Several conductor designs featuring High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) stacked tapes for fusion coils are being proposed. These conductors are planned to operate in time-varying magnetic field and current; thus, the estimation of AC losses is fundament ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Kinetics of information scrambling in correlated metals: Disorder-driven transition from shock wave to Fisher or Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov dynamics

Camille Didier Georges Aron

Quenched disorder slows down the scrambling of quantum information. Using a bottom-up approach, we formulate a kinetic theory of scrambling in a correlated metal near a superconducting transition, following the scrambling dynamics as the impurity scatterin ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Magnetic orderings and electronic structure of complex oxides from advanced Hubbard functionals

Luca Binci

Transition metal oxides represent a class of materials displaying very unusual electronic, structural and magnetic properties. They are extremely interesting, both from a technological and fundamental point of view. The most important characteristic of the ...

EPFL2023

Hybridization driving distortions and multiferroicity in rare-earth nickelates

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Michele Kotiuga, Luca Binci

For decades transition-metal oxides have generated a huge interest due to the multitude of physical phenomena they exhibit. In this class of materials, the rare-earth nickelates, RNiO3, stand out for their rich phase diagram stemming from complex couplings ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Direct observation of exchange anisotropy in the helimagnetic insulator Cu2OSeO3

Arnaud Magrez, Jonathan White, Chen Luo, Priya Ranjan Baral

The helical magnetic structures of cubic chiral systems are well explained by the competition among Heisen-berg exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, cubic anisotropy, and anisotropic exchange interaction (AEI). Recently, the role of the latter has ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Electronic Coupling of Metal-to-Insulator Transitions in Nickelate-Based Heterostructures

Jean-Marc Triscone, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Bernat Mundet

In rare earth nickelates, the metal-to-insulator transition observed as a function of temperature can be described using an electronic and a structural order parameter. The electronic one is linked to the electronic disproportionation observed below the tr ...

WILEY2023