纳米尺度下超导体和拓扑绝缘体的电输运特性

Transport properties of nanoscale superconductors and topological insulators

超导体和拓扑绝缘体研究是当前凝聚态物理领域中的重大课题.文章重点介绍了作者所在实验室在纳米超导和拓扑绝缘体电输运领域的实验进展,其中包括金属和铁磁纳米线中的超导近邻效应、半金属纳米线中的新奇超导特性、拓扑绝缘体薄膜中的量子输运以及超导态-拓扑量子态的相互作用等,并对该领域的进一步发展进行了展望.

Superconductors and topological insulators are important topics in condensed matter physics. In this paper we describe our recent experiments on the electronic transport properties of nanoscale super- conductors and topological insulators, including the proximity effect in metallic and ferromagnetic nanowires induced by superconducting electrodes, exotic superconductivity in semimetal nanowires, quantum transport in topological insulator thin films, and the interplay between superconducting and topological insulator sur- face states. Future research and potential applications in this field are discussed.