Engineered Topological Superconductivity in van der Waals Heterostructures

Project Information

TopSupra

Grant agreement ID: 787414

DOI 10.3030/787414

Project closed

EC signature date 19 April 2018

Start date 1 July 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 497 577,00

EU contribution € 2 497 577,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT BASEL
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Edge Contacts to Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

Author(s): W. Huang, O. Braun, D. I. Indolese, G. B. Barin, G. Gandus, M. Stiefel, A. Olziersky, K. Müllen, M. Luisier, D. Passerone, P. Ruffieux, C. Schönenberger, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Fasel, J. Zhang, M. Calame, and M. L. Perrin.
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 18706-18715, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00782

Transparent Josephson junctions in higher-order topological insulator WTe2 via Pd diffusion

Author(s): Martin Endres, Artem Kononov, Michael Stiefel, Marcus Wyss, Hasitha Suriya Arachchige, Jiaqiang Yan, David Mandrus, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 6 / L081201, 2022, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.6.l081201

Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers

Author(s): C. Ciaccia, R. Haller, A. C. C. Drachmann, T. Lindemann, M. J. Manfra, C. Schrade, C. Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 033131, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033131

Current–Phase Relation of a WTe2 Josephson Junction

Author(s): Martin Endres, Artem Kononov, Hasitha Suriya Arachchige, Jiaqiang Yan, David Mandrus, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 4654-4659, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01416

Superconducting Contacts to a Monolayer Semiconductor

Author(s): Mehdi Ramezani, Ian Correa Sampaio, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger, Andreas Baumgartner
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 21/13, 2021, Page(s) 5614-5619, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00615

Global strain-induced scalar potential in graphene devices

Author(s): Lujun Wang, Andreas Baumgartner, Péter Makk, Simon Zihlmann, Blesson Sam Varghese, David I. Indolese, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 4/1, 2021, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Nature-Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00651-y

One-Dimensional Edge Transport in Few-Layer WTe 2

Author(s): Artem Kononov, Gulibusitan Abulizi, Kejian Qu, Jiaqiang Yan, David Mandrus, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 20/6, 2020, Page(s) 4228-4233, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00658

AC Josephson effect in a gate-tunable Cd3As2 nanowire superconducting weak link

Author(s): Roy Haller, Melissa Osterwalder, Gergö Fülöp, Joost Ridderbos, Minkyung Jung, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 108, 2023, Page(s) 94514, ISSN 0556-2805
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.094514

Magnetic, Thermal, and Topographic Imaging with a Nanometer-Scale SQUID-On-Lever Scanning Probe

Author(s): M. Wyss, K. Bagani, D. Jetter, E. Marchiori, A. Vervelaki, B. Gross, J. Ridderbos, S. Gliga, C. Schönenberger, and M. Poggio
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 034002, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.17.034002

Mobility Enhancement in Graphene by in situ Reduction of Random Strain Fluctuations

Author(s): Lujun Wang, Péter Makk, Simon Zihlmann, Andreas Baumgartner, David I. Indolese, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/15, 2020, Page(s) 157701, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.157701

Compact SQUID Realized in a Double-Layer Graphene Heterostructure

Author(s): David I. Indolese, Paritosh Karnatak, Artem Kononov, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Roy Haller, Lujun Wang, Péter Makk, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue Vol. 20, 2020, Page(s) 7129–7135, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02412

Out-of-plane corrugations in graphene based van der Waals heterostructures

Author(s): Simon Zihlmann, Péter Makk, Mirko K. Rehmann, Lujun Wang, Máté Kedves, David I. Indolese, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 102/19, 2020, Page(s) 195404, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: Amercian Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.195404

Boosting proximity spin–orbit coupling in graphene/WSe2 heterostructures via hydrostatic pressure

Author(s): Bálint Fülöp, Albin Márffy, Simon Zihlmann, Martin Gmitra, Endre Tóvári, Bálint Szentpéteri, Máté Kedves, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jaroslav Fabian, Christian Schönenberger, Péter Makk & Szabolcs Csonka
Published in: npj 2d materials and applications, Issue 5/82, 2021, ISSN 2397-7132
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41699-021-00262-9

Signatures of van Hove Singularities Probed by the Supercurrent in a Graphene-hBN Superlattice

Author(s): D. I. Indolese, R. Delagrange, P. Makk, J. R. Wallbank, K. Wanatabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 121/13, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.137701

GHz nanomechanical resonator in an ultraclean suspended graphene p–n junction

Author(s): Minkyung Jung, Peter Rickhaus, Simon Zihlmann, Alexander Eichler, Peter Makk, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 11/10, 2019, Page(s) 4355-4361, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8nr09963d

In Situ Strain Tuning in hBN-Encapsulated Graphene Electronic Devices

Author(s): Lujun Wang, Simon Zihlmann, Andreas Baumgartner, Jan Overbeck, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Péter Makk, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/6, 2019, Page(s) 4097-4102, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01491

Coexistence of classical snake states and Aharonov-Bohm oscillations along graphene p − n junctions

Author(s): Péter Makk, Clevin Handschin, Endre Tóvári, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Klaus Richter, Ming-Hao Liu, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 98/3, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.98.035413

Nonequilibrium properties of graphene probed by superconducting tunnel spectroscopy

Author(s): Simon Zihlmann, Péter Makk, Sebastián Castilla, Jörg Gramich, Kishan Thodkar, Sabina Caneva, Ruizhi Wang, Stephan Hofmann, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 99/7, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.075419

New Generation of Moiré Superlattices in Doubly Aligned hBN/Graphene/hBN Heterostructures

Author(s): Lujun Wang, Simon Zihlmann, Ming-Hao Liu, Péter Makk, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Andreas Baumgartner, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/4, 2019, Page(s) 2371-2376, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b05061

Wideband and On-Chip Excitation for Dynamical Spin Injection into Graphene

Author(s): David Indolese, Simon Zihlmann, Péter Makk, Christian Jünger, Kishan Thodkar, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 10/4, 2018, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.10.044053

Electron wave and quantum optics in graphene

Author(s): Himadri Chakraborti, Cosimo Gorini, Angelika Knothe, Ming-Hao Liu, Peter Makk, Francois D. Parmentier, David Perconte, Klaus Richter, Preden Roulleau, Benjamin Sacépé, Christian Schönenberger, Wenmin Yang6
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2024, ISSN 1361-648X
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.04233

Superconductivity in type-II Weyl-semimetal WTe 2 induced by a normal metal contact

Author(s): Artem Kononov, Martin Endres, Gulibusitan Abulizi, Kejian Qu, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 129/11, 2021, Page(s) 113903, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0021350

Phase-dependent microwave response of a graphene Josephson junction

Author(s): R. Haller; G. Fülöp; D. Indolese; J. Ridderbos; R. Kraft; L. Y. Cheung; J. H. Ungerer; K. Watanabe; T. Taniguchi; D. Beckmann; R. Danneau; P. Virtanen; C. Schönenberger
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 4 / 013198, 2022, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.4.013198

New method of transport measurements on van der Waals heterostructures under pressure

Author(s): B. Fülöp, A. Márffy, E. Tóvári, M. Kedves, S. Zihlmann, D. Indolese, Z. Kovács-Krausz, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger, Kézsmárki I. P. Makk, S. Csonka
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 130, 2021, Page(s) 064303, ISSN 0021-4922
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0058583

Experimental demonstration of the suppression of optical phonon splitting in 2D materials by Raman spectroscopy

Author(s): Marta De Luca, Xavier Cartoixà, David I Indolese, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Schönenberger, Rinaldo Trotta, Riccardo Rurali, Ilaria Zardo
Published in: 2D Materials, Issue 7/3, 2020, Page(s) 035017, ISSN 2053-1583
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ab81b1

Origin of Subgap States in Normal-Insulator-Superconductor van der Waals Heterostructures

Author(s): Paritosh Karnatak; Zarina Mingazheva; Kenji Watanabe; Takashi Taniguchi; Helmuth Berger; László Forró; Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nano Lettesr, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 2454−2459, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02777

Charge-4e supercurrent in an InAs-Al superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure

Author(s): C. Ciaccia, R. Haller, A. C. C. Drachmann, T. Lindemann, M. J. Manfra, C. Schrade C., C. Schönenberger
Published in: Communication Physics 7, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 41, ISSN 2528-5971
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01531-x

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

2D materials shrink superconducting qubits

Author(s): Christian Schönenberger
Published in: Nature Materials, Issue 21 / 381, 2022, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01220-6