From March 2021, CNR-SPIN and CNR-NANO Institutes will be starting the collaborative research and innovation project SuperGate “Gate Tuneable Superconducting Quantum Electronics”, which has been funded by the European Commission under the HORIZON-2020 FETOPEN program.
SuperGate is coordinated by the University of Konstanz and, apart from SPIN and NANO in collaboration with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Salerno, involves the following partners: Budapest University of Technology and Economics-Hungary, Delft University of Technology-The Netherlands, Chalmers University of Technology- Sweden, and SeeQC - Italy.
The interplay of electricity and superconductivity is a fundamental problem that stands out for its general relevance, the great impact it can have for accessing, controlling or driving new phases of quantum matter, and the enticing perspectives for the development of future emergent technologies especially in the realm of quantum technologies.
Starting from the recent discovery, by the group of Francesco Giazotto at NEST-Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, that the superconducting state can be controlled via electric field effect (FE), in SuperGate we aim at (i) understanding the origin and the mechanisms controlling the FE, (ii) determining superconducting materials and device geometry with optimised performance, (iii) testing and developing logic circuits based on such devices. The ultimate goal of SuperGate is to develop a new outperforming technology for superconducting logics that is completely based on electric field effect. At SPIN the groups of Mario Cuoco and Antonio Vecchione will be contributing to the research objectives (i) and (ii) in SuperGate. The proposed technology promises a disruptive impact and radical transformations in the long term both in the world of supercomputing and concerning the design of innovative devices for quantum technologies.
