Controllable Superconductivity in Suspended van der Waals Materials

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Main Authors: Fang, Ruihuan, Yu, Cuiju, Huang, Youqiang, Elalaily, Tosson, Chaudhry, Yuvraj, Zhou, Yaoqiang, Castellanos-Gomez, Andres, Xiao, Sanshui, Park, Jiwon, Choi, Hyunyong, Ali, Fida, Fang, Hanlin, Lado, Jose, Hakonen, Pertti, Sun, Zhipei
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author Fang, Ruihuan
Yu, Cuiju
Huang, Youqiang
Elalaily, Tosson
Chaudhry, Yuvraj
Zhou, Yaoqiang
Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Xiao, Sanshui
Park, Jiwon
Choi, Hyunyong
Ali, Fida
Fang, Hanlin
Lado, Jose
Hakonen, Pertti
Sun, Zhipei
author_facet Fang, Ruihuan
Yu, Cuiju
Huang, Youqiang
Elalaily, Tosson
Chaudhry, Yuvraj
Zhou, Yaoqiang
Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Xiao, Sanshui
Park, Jiwon
Choi, Hyunyong
Ali, Fida
Fang, Hanlin
Lado, Jose
Hakonen, Pertti
Sun, Zhipei
contents Tunable superconductors provide a versatile platform for advancing next-generation quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate controllable superconductivity in suspended NbSe2 thin layers, achieved through local strain and thermal modulation of the superconducting state. Our results show that suspended NbSe2 structures enable strain modulation of the critical temperature by up to approximately 0.92 K (about 12.5% of the critical temperature) and allow the realization of gate-tunable superconducting critical currents. We further demonstrate configurable hysteretic transport characteristics exhibiting multistability and negative differential resistance, providing easily reconfigurable, spatially dependent superconducting states. These phenomena are well explained by calculations of electron-phonon coupling using density functional theory, together with time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau dynamics coupled to the thermal diffusion equation. Our work provides profound insight into strain and thermal modulation of van der Waals superconductors and opens new opportunities for tunable on-chip superconductor devices, integrated superconducting circuits, and quantum simulators.
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spellingShingle Controllable Superconductivity in Suspended van der Waals Materials
Fang, Ruihuan
Yu, Cuiju
Huang, Youqiang
Elalaily, Tosson
Chaudhry, Yuvraj
Zhou, Yaoqiang
Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Xiao, Sanshui
Park, Jiwon
Choi, Hyunyong
Ali, Fida
Fang, Hanlin
Lado, Jose
Hakonen, Pertti
Sun, Zhipei
Superconductivity
Tunable superconductors provide a versatile platform for advancing next-generation quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate controllable superconductivity in suspended NbSe2 thin layers, achieved through local strain and thermal modulation of the superconducting state. Our results show that suspended NbSe2 structures enable strain modulation of the critical temperature by up to approximately 0.92 K (about 12.5% of the critical temperature) and allow the realization of gate-tunable superconducting critical currents. We further demonstrate configurable hysteretic transport characteristics exhibiting multistability and negative differential resistance, providing easily reconfigurable, spatially dependent superconducting states. These phenomena are well explained by calculations of electron-phonon coupling using density functional theory, together with time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau dynamics coupled to the thermal diffusion equation. Our work provides profound insight into strain and thermal modulation of van der Waals superconductors and opens new opportunities for tunable on-chip superconductor devices, integrated superconducting circuits, and quantum simulators.
title Controllable Superconductivity in Suspended van der Waals Materials
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05763