CAREER: Mesoscopic Physics of Disordered Superconductors: An Arena for Research and Education

小行星9702661 这个实验性的CAREER资助项目专注于无序对中尺度超导体的影响。 一个中心的研究目标是实验确定是否存在负的局部超流密度。 这些实验将利用电子束光刻技术和薄膜制造技术以及一个设备齐全的低温测量实验室。 一些具体的目标是测量单个和阵列中的磁电阻和电场效应 的 介观超导 铋 环.奥伦磁场中介观波动的测量 合金和Bi样品。 这些实验的完成将对负超流密度的问题产生重大影响。 拟议的研究将纳入教育计划，以帮助提高学生的学习和培养未来的科学家。 教育计划的部分目的是促进妇女参与科学，这将有利于科学及其作为一种职业的福祉。 在这项工作中获得的基本知识将加深我们对基本问题的理解。 库珀配对的性质 相关性 在无序超导体中，可能对几个相关领域产生重大影响。 介观尺度超导体的行为在潜在的应用中也是相关的，包括电磁辐射的敏感传感器和高性能低功耗逻辑电路。 %这个 实验 职业发展补助金 项目 探针 当样品变得非常小或非常薄时，以及当超导材料本身变得无序时，超导现象的根本变化。 的问题 被研究的对象变得更加重要 超导性的量子力学本质也很有趣。 这项工作的重点是寻找一种特殊的理论上可能的效应，称为负超流密度。 这种效应的存在，如果被所提出的工作证明，将对相关的科学领域产生影响。 这种研究的长期结果 可以 包括发展 的 用于检测电磁辐射和/或进行快速计算的改进的电子设备。 该项目中的教育计划将研究和教育结合起来，旨在促进妇女参与科学。 ***

9702661 Liu This experimental CAREER grant project focuses on the effects of disorder on meso-scale superconductors. A central research goal is to determine experimentally whether a negative local superfluid density exists. The experiments will make use of e-beam lithography and ultrathin film fabrication techniques and a well equipped low temperature measurement laboratory. Some specific aims are measurement of magnetoresistance and electric field effect in single and arrays of mesoscopic superconducting bismuth rings; measurement of mesoscopic fluctuations in magnetic fields in Auln alloy and Bi samples. The completion of these experiments will have a strong bearing on the question of the negative superfluid density. The proposed research will be integrated into an education plan to help enhance student learning and to train future scientists. The education plan is designed in part to promote women's participation in science, which will be beneficial for science and its well being as a profession. the fundamental knowledge which will be gained in this work will deepen our understanding of the fundamental nature of Cooper pairing correlation in disordered superconductors and may have significant impacts on several related fields. The behavior of mesoscopic scale superconductors is also relevant in potential applications including sensitive sensors of electromagnetic radiation and high performance low dissipation logic circuits. %%% This experimental CAREER grant project probes the fundamental changes in the phenomenon of superconductivity as the samples become very small or very thin, and as the superconducting material itself becomes disordered. The questions being studied are made more important and interesting by the essentially quantum mechanical nature of superconductivity. A focus of the work is to search for a particular theoretically possible eff ect, called a negative superfluid density. The existence of such as effect, if proven by work such as is proposed, would have implications for related areas of science. The long term outcome of such research could include the development of improved electronic devices for detecting electromagnetic radiation and/or for making rapid calculations. The education plan included in this project integrates research and education and aims to promote women's participation in science. ***