Title
Asymmetric Little–Parks oscillations in full shell double nanowires
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Vekris A.
de Bruijckere J.
Lorić S.
Kanne T.
Marnauza M.
Olsteins D.
Nygård J.
Grove-Rasmussen K.
Universidad de Copenhagen
Publisher(s)
Nature Research
Abstract
Little–Parks oscillations of a hollow superconducting cylinder are of interest for flux-driven topological superconductivity in single Rashba nanowires. The oscillations are typically symmetric in the orientation of the applied magnetic flux. Using double InAs nanowires coated by an epitaxial superconducting Al shell which, despite the non-centro-symmetric geometry, behaves effectively as one hollow cylinder, we demonstrate that a small misalignment of the applied parallel field with respect to the axis of the nanowires can produce field-asymmetric Little–Parks oscillations. These are revealed by the simultaneous application of a magnetic field perpendicular to the misaligned parallel field direction. The asymmetry occurs in both the destructive regime, in which superconductivity is destroyed for half-integer quanta of flux through the shell, and in the non-destructive regime, where superconductivity is depressed but not fully destroyed at these flux values.
Volume
11
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Física de la materia condensada
Nano-tecnología
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85115665376
PubMed ID
Source
Scientific Reports
ISSN of the container
2045-2322
Sponsor(s)
We would like to acknowledge fruitful discussions with Michele Burrello, Ida Nielsen, Saulius Vaitiekėnas, Jens Paaske, Gorm Steffensen, Elsa Prada, Pablo San-Rose, Fernando Peñaranda and Ramon Aguado. The Project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 832645. We additionally acknowledge financial support from the Carls-berg Foundation, the Independent Research Fund Denmark, QuantERA “SuperTop” (NN 127900), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme FETOpen Grant No. 828948 (AndQC), the Danish National Research Foundation, Villum Foundation Project No. 25310, and the Sino-Danish Center.
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