In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study the reverse
process and identify the various pathways that lead to its destruction. One way is to increase …

The purpose of this review is to focus from an experimental point-of-view on the new
physical properties of some of the thinnest superconducting films that can be fabricated and …

We demonstrate that a high kinetic inductance disordered-superconductor nanowire can
realize a circuit element–known as a superinductor–with a characteristic impedance greater …

In this paper we intend to give a comprehensive description of the current understanding of
the detection mechanism in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. We will …

We demonstrate experimentally that single-photon detection can be achieved in micrometer-
wide NbN bridges, with widths ranging from 0.53 to 5.15 μ m and for photon wavelengths of …

Ordinary superconductors are widely assumed insensitive to small concentrations of random
nonmagnetic impurities, whereas strong disorder suppresses superconductivity and even …

The observation of vortices in superconductors was a major breakthrough in develo** the
conceptual background for superconducting applications. Each vortex carries a flux …

The development of the fundamental superconducting (SC) energy scales—the SC energy
gap Δ and the superfluid stiffness J—of granular aluminum, ie, thin films composed of …

In most superconductors, the transition to the superconducting state is driven by the binding
of electrons into Cooper pairs. The condensation of these pairs into a single, phase …

Despite the formal analogy with the Higgs particle, the amplitude fluctuations of the order
parameter in weakly coupled superconductors do not identify a real mode with a Lorentz …