Chiral spintronics

SH Yang, R Naaman, Y Paltiel, SSP Parkin - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
As spins move through a chiral electric field, the resulting spin current can acquire chirality
through a spin–orbit interaction. Such spin currents are highly useful in creating spin–orbit …

2D materials for quantum information science

X Liu, MC Hersam - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The transformation of digital computers from bulky machines to portable systems has been
enabled by new materials and advanced processing technologies that allow ultrahigh …

van der Waals heterostructures combining graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

M Yankowitz, Q Ma, P Jarillo-Herrero… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
As the first in a large family of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, graphene has attracted
enormous attention owing to its remarkable properties. The recent development of simple …

Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter

R Aguado - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2017 - Springer
In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed
matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a …

Topological superconductivity in hybrid devices

SM Frolov, MJ Manfra, JD Sau - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Topological superconductivity can emerge from the combination of conventional
superconductivity in a metal and strong spin–orbit coupling in a semiconductor when they …

High-temperature Majorana corner states

Q Wang, CC Liu, YM Lu, F Zhang - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Majorana bound states often occur at the end of a 1D topological superconductor. Validated
by a new bulk invariant and an intuitive edge argument, we show the emergence of one …

One-dimensional proximity superconductivity in the quantum Hall regime

J Barrier, M Kim, RK Kumar, N **n, P Kumaravadivel… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Extensive efforts have been undertaken to combine superconductivity and the quantum Hall
effect so that Cooper-pair transport between superconducting electrodes in Josephson …

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

Coherent control of a hybrid superconducting circuit made with graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures

JIJ Wang, D Rodan-Legrain, L Bretheau… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum coherence and control is foundational to the science and engineering of quantum
systems,. In van der Waals materials, the collective coherent behaviour of carriers has been …

Graphene: Fundamental research and potential applications

Y Zhong, Z Zhen, H Zhu - FlatChem, 2017 - Elsevier
Graphene is a representative two-dimensional (2D) material and has been receiving
considerable interest from both academia and industry. In this review, we recollect the latest …