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A Superconducting Junction made from a Single 2D Material promises to Harness Strange New Physics

image of a Josephson junction
Figure 1: A schematic image showing a Josephson junction (central section) made from a single layer of tungsten telluride. The red spheres are electron with spin up, while the blue ones have spin down. © 2023 RIKEN Advanced Device Laboratory

Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation.

When a material exists as an ultrathin layer—a mere one or a few atoms thick—it has totally different properties from thicker samples of the same material. That’s because confining electrons to a 2D plane gives rise to exotic states...

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