Mihir Pendharkar

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• Selective control of conductance modes in multi-terminal Josephson junctions. Nature communications Graziano, G. V., Gupta, M., Pendharkar, M., Dong, J. T., Dempsey, C. P., Palmstrøm, C., Pribiag, V. S. 2022; 13 (1): 5933

  Abstract

  The Andreev bound state spectra of multi-terminal Josephson junctions form an artificial band structure, which is predicted to host tunable topological phases under certain conditions. However, the number of conductance modes between the terminals of a multi-terminal Josephson junction must be few in order for this spectrum to be experimentally accessible. In this work, we employ a quantum point contact geometry in three-terminal Josephson devices to demonstrate independent control of conductance modes between each pair of terminals and access to the single-mode regime coexistent with the presence of superconducting coupling. These results establish a full platform on which to realize tunable Andreev bound state spectra in multi-terminal Josephson junctions.

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-33682-2

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• Supercurrent parity meter in a nanowire Cooper pair transistor SCIENCE ADVANCES Wang, J., Schrade, C., Levajac, V., van Driel, D., Li, K., Gazibegovic, S., Badawy, G., Veld, R., Lee, J., Pendharkar, M., Dempsey, C. P., Palmstrom, C. J., Bakkers, E. M., Fu, L., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Shen, J. 2022; 8 (16): eabm9896

  Abstract

  We study a Cooper pair transistor realized by two Josephson weak links that enclose a superconducting island in an InSb-Al hybrid nanowire. When the nanowire is subject to a magnetic field, isolated subgap levels arise in the superconducting island and, because of the Coulomb blockade, mediate a supercurrent by coherent cotunneling of Cooper pairs. We show that the supercurrent resulting from such cotunneling events exhibits, for low to moderate magnetic fields, a phase offset that discriminates even and odd charge ground states on the superconducting island. Notably, this phase offset persists when a subgap state approaches zero energy and, based on theoretical considerations, permits parity measurements of subgap states by supercurrent interferometry. Such supercurrent parity measurements could, in a series of experiments, provide an alternative approach for manipulating and protecting quantum information stored in the isolated subgap levels of superconducting islands.

  View details for DOI 10.1126/sciadv.abm9896

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• In-plane selective area InSb-Al nanowire quantum networks (vol 3, 59, 2020) COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS Op Het Veld, R. M., Xu, D., Schaller, V., Verheijen, M. A., Peters, S. E., Jung, J., Tong, C., Wang, Q., de Moor, M. A., Hesselmann, B., Vermeulen, K., Bommer, J. S., Lee, J., Sarikov, A., Pendharkar, M., Marzegalli, A., Koelling, S., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Miglio, L., Palmstrom, C. J., Zhang, H., Bakkers, E. M. 2021; 4 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s42005-021-00578-4

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• Mechanism for embedded in-plane self-assembled nanowire formation PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS Wilson, N. S., Kraemer, S., Pennachio, D. J., Callahan, P., Pendharkar, M., Palmstrom, C. J. 2020; 4 (6)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.066003

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• In-plane selective area InSb-Al nanowire quantum networks COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS Veld, R., Xu, D., Schaller, V., Verheijen, M. A., Peters, S. E., Jung, J., Tong, C., Wang, Q., de Moor, M. A., Hesselmann, B., Vermeulen, K., Bommer, J. S., Lee, J., Sarikov, A., Pendharkar, M., Marzegalli, A., Koelling, S., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Miglio, L., Palmstrom, C. J., Zhang, H., Bakkers, E. M. 2020; 3 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s42005-020-0324-4

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• Transport studies in a gate-tunable three-terminal Josephson junction PHYSICAL REVIEW B Graziano, G., Lee, J., Pendharkar, M., Palmstrom, C., Pribiag, V. S. 2020; 101 (5)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054510

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• Selective-area chemical beam epitaxy of in-plane InAs one-dimensional channels grown on InP(001), InP(111)B, and InP(011) surfaces PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS Lee, J., Choi, S., Pendharkar, M., Pennachio, D. J., Markman, B., Seas, M., Koelling, S., Verheijen, M. A., Casparis, L., Petersson, K. D., Petkovic, I., Schaller, V., Rodwell, M. W., Marcus, C. M., Krogstrup, P., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Bakkers, E. M., Palmstrom, C. J. 2019; 3 (8)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.084606

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• Contribution of top barrier materials to high mobility in near-surface InAs quantum wells grown on GaSb(001) PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS Lee, J., Shojaei, B., Pendharkar, M., Feldman, M., Mukherjee, K., Palmstrom, C. J. 2019; 3 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.014603

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• Parity transitions in the superconducting ground state of hybrid InSb-Al Coulomb islands NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Shen, J., Heedt, S., Borsoi, F., van Heck, B., Gazibegovic, S., Veld, R., Car, D., Logan, J. A., Pendharkar, M., Ramakers, S. J., Wang, G., Xu, D., Bouman, D., Geresdi, A., Palmstrom, C. J., Bakkers, E. M., Kouwenhoven, L. P. 2018; 9: 4801

  Abstract

  The number of electrons in small metallic or semiconducting islands is quantised. When tunnelling is enabled via opaque barriers this number can change by an integer. In superconductors the addition is in units of two electron charges (2e), reflecting that the Cooper pair condensate must have an even parity. This ground state (GS) is foundational for all superconducting qubit devices. Here, we study a hybrid superconducting-semiconducting island and find three typical GS evolutions in a parallel magnetic field: a robust 2e-periodic even-parity GS, a transition to a 2e-periodic odd-parity GS, and a transition from a 2e- to a 1e-periodic GS. The 2e-periodic odd-parity GS persistent in gate-voltage occurs when a spin-resolved subgap state crosses zero energy. For our 1e-periodic GSs we explicitly show the origin being a single zero-energy state gapped from the continuum, i.e., compatible with an Andreev bound states stabilized at zero energy or the presence of Majorana zero modes.

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-07279-7

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• Electric field tunable superconductor-semiconductor coupling in Majorana nanowires NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS de Moor, M. A., Bommer, J. S., Xu, D., Winkler, G. W., Antipov, A. E., Bargerbos, A., Wang, G., van Loo, N., Veld, R., Gazibegovic, S., Car, D., Logan, J. A., Pendharkar, M., Lee, J., Bakkers, E. M., Palmstrom, C. J., Lutchyn, R. M., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Zhang, H. 2018; 20

  View details for DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/aae61d

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• Interface formation of epitaxial MgO/Co2MnSi(001) structures: Elemental segregation and oxygen migration JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS McFadden, A., Wilson, N., Brown-Heft, T., Pennachio, D., Pendharkar, M., Logan, J. A., Palmstrom, C. J. 2017; 444: 383-389

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jmmm.2017.08.027

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• Ultrawide thermal free-carrier tuning of dielectric antennas coupled to epsilon-near-zero substrates NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Iyer, P. P., Pendharkar, M., Palmstrom, C. J., Schuller, J. A. 2017; 8: 472

  Abstract

  The principal challenge for achieving reconfigurable optical antennas and metasurfaces is the need to generate continuous and large tunability of subwavelength, low-Q resonators. We demonstrate continuous and steady-state refractive index tuning at mid-infrared wavelengths using temperature-dependent control over the low-loss plasma frequency in III-V semiconductors. In doped InSb we demonstrate nearly two-fold increase in the electron effective mass leading to a positive refractive index shift (Δn > 1.5) that is an order of magnitude greater than conventional thermo-optic effects. In undoped films we demonstrate more than 10-fold change in the thermal free-carrier concentration producing a near-unity negative refractive index shift. Exploiting both effects within a single resonator system-intrinsic InSb wires on a heavily doped (epsilon-near-zero) InSb substrate-we demonstrate dynamically steady-state tunable Mie resonances. The observed line-width resonance shifts (Δλ > 1.7 μm) suggest new avenues for highly tunable and steady-state mid-infrared semiconductor antennas.Achieving large tunability of subwavelength resonators is a central challenge in nanophotonics. Here the authors demonstrate refractive index tuning at mid-infrared wavelengths using temperature-dependent control over the low loss plasma frequency in III-V semiconductors.

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-00615-3

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• Electrically Reconfigurable Metasurfaces Using Heterojunction Resonators ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS Iyer, P. P., Pendharkar, M., Schuller, J. A. 2016; 4 (10): 1582-1588

  View details for DOI 10.1002/adom.201600297

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