Oral: Dual graphite gated graphene Josephson junctions

ORAL

Abstract

Emergent superconducting phenomena, such as chiral Andreev modes and parafermions, have been predicted in a quantum Hall – superconductor hybrid system. The development of such states relies on ballistic superconducting transport and gate tunability of superconducting properties. Here, we report on the low-temperature transport measurements in highly ballistic dual graphite gated graphene Josephson junctions (JJs). We employ a standard 2D heterostructure assembly and nanofabrication to create hBN-encapsulated graphene JJs. Our low temperature transport studies point to several improvements in the performance of our JJs, including four-fold degeneracy breaking of the lowest Landau level at a relatively low magnetic field of B ~ 2.5T. We further observe strong Fabry-Perot (FP) oscillations in both normal and superconducting regimes. Our results suggest that dual-graphite gating might pave the way towards the future exploration of elusive Majorana and parafermion states in ultraclean JJs.

*Acknowledgement: Pennsylvania State University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center supported by the US National Science Foundation (DMR 2011839).

Presenters

  • Le Yi

    • The Pennsylvania State University
    • Pennsylvania State University

Authors

  • Le Yi

    • The Pennsylvania State University
    • Pennsylvania State University
  • Asmaul Smitha Rashid

    • Pennsylvania State University
  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • NIMS
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
  • Morteza Kayyalha

    • Pennsylvania State University