Two-dimensional nano-engineered semiconductors represent an innovative solution for generating quantum bits on ultra-compact spatial scales. This finding, just published in Nature Photonics, emerges from a study led by Chiara Trovatello of the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with an international team that includes Carino Ferrante from CNR-SPIN in L’Aquila, Andrea Marini from the University of L’Aquila and researchers from other prestigious institutions such as Columbia University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Chicago.

Una recente collaborazione tra scienziati italiani, appartenenti all’Istituto SPIN del CNR, all’Università degli Studi dell’Aquila e all’Università di Vienna, ha portato alla pubblicazione di un articolo sulla prestigiosa rivista “Nature Communications” riguardante le proprietà superconduttive di un nuovo materiale a base di idrogeno.

An international research team, led by Marco Salluzzo’s group at CNR-SPIN, presents the first report of Dirac-like fermion physics induced by nontrivial Berry curvature in oxide two-dimensional electron system (2DES).

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Nicola Manca was recently awarded with the “The Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research” for “his groundbreaking research on microelectromechanical devices with epitaxial oxides”.

Ruggero Vaglio, primo Direttore di SPIN, è stato recentemente nominato tra i membri del Comitato di Valutazione dei Piani Triennali di Attività (PTA) relativi agli enti vigilati dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca.

Un team di ricerca internazionale ha comunicato la fabbricazione di un materiale, basato su superconduttori ad alta temperatura critica e su supporto cosiddetto "coated conductor", in grado di far scorrere al suo interno una densità di corrente elettrica record, pari a 190 Milioni di Ampere per centimetro quadrato di sezione, alla temperatura di 4.2 K.

An international collaboration led by researchers from CNR-SPIN (OXiNEMS project) realized a micro-mechanical resonators showing both high-Q-factor and high-Tc superconductivity by growing YBa₂Cu₃O₇ on top of tensile-strained LaAlO₃ micro-bridges. Such devices are of great interest towards the development of advanced sensors, superconducting physics, and quantum opto-mechanics.

In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, an international team, led by Prof. Kian Ping Loh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and National University of Singapore(NUS), for the experimental part and by Dr. Alessandro Stroppa, CNR-SPIN, for the theoretical part, demonstrates, for the first kind, the coexistence of chirality, electric and magnetic orders in a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (R/S)-(MPA)₂CuCl₄ (MPA = β-methylphenethylamine).

The paper "Coherent Quantum Network of Superconducting Qubits as a Highly Sensitive Detector of Microwave Photons for Searching of Galactic Axions", dealing with the demonstration of quantum network of superconducting qubits with highly entangled quantum phases, was recently selected as research highlight within the activities of the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI).