Publications

PhD manuscripts at the bottom of the page

Preprint

Electron quantum optics in graphene

Himadri Chakraborti, Cosimo Gorini, Angelika Knothe, Ming-Hao Liu, Péter Makk, Francois D. Parmentier, David Perconte, Klaus Richter, Preden Roulleau, Benjamin Sacépé, Christian Schönenberger, Wenmin Yang arXiv:2401:04233

 

Evidence for correlated electron pairs and triplets in quantum Hall interferometers

Wenmin Yang, David Perconte, Corentin Déprez, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sylvain Dumont, Edouard Wagner, Frédéric Gay, Inès Safi, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé arXiv:2312.14767

 

Near-power-law temperature dependence of the superfluid stiffness in strongly disordered superconductors
Anton V. Khvalyuk, Thibault Charpentier, Nicolas Roch, Benjamin Sacépé, Mikhail V. Feigel’man arXiv:2311.15126

 

Probing the fractional quantum Hall phases in valley-layer locked bilayer MoS2
Siwen Zhao, Jinqiang Huang, Valentin Crépel, Xingguang Wu, Tongyao Zhang, Hanwen Wang, Xiangyan Han, Zhengyu Li, Chuanying Xi, Senyang Pan, Zhaosheng Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Benjamin Sacépé, Jing Zhang, Ning Wang, Jianming Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zheng Vitto Han,
arXiv:2308.02821

 

2023

Evidence of chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions,
Hadrien Vignaud, David Perconte, Wenmin Yang, Bilal Kousar, Edouard Wagner, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hervé Courtois, Zheng Han, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé,

 

Absence of edge reconstruction for quantum Hall edge channels in graphene devices
Alexis Coissard, Adolfo G. Grushin, Cécile Repellin, Louis Veyrat, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frédéric Gay, Hervé Courtois, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé, Science Advances 9, eadf7220(2023)

 

2022

Imaging tunable quantum Hall broken-symmetry orders in graphene
Alexis Coissard, David Wander, Hadrien Vignaud, Adolfo G. Grushin, Cécile Repellin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frédéric Gay, Clemens Winkelmann, Hervé Courtois, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé, Nature 605, 51 (2022)

 

2021

Thermal relaxation in metal films bottlenecked by diffuson lattice excitations of amorphous substrates
E. M. Baeva, N. A. Titova, L. Veyrat, B. Sacépé, A. V. Semenov, G. N. Goltsman, A. I. Kardakova, V. S. Khrapai, Phys. Rev. Applied 15, 054014 (2021) and arXiv:2101:07071 (2021)

 

A tunable Fabry-Pérot quantum Hall interferometer in graphene

Corentin Déprez, Louis Veyrat, Hadrien Vignaud, Goutham Nayak, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frédéric Gay, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé, Nature Nanotechnology (2021) and arXiv:2008:11222 (2020)           

 

2020

Review Article in the Focus Issue on Emergent superconductivity: Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials
B. Sacépé, M. Feigel’man, T. Klapwijk, Nature Physics 16, 734 (2020)

 

Deficiency of the scaling collapse as an indicator of a superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition
A. Rogachev, B. Sacépé, Phys. Rev. B 101, 235164 (2020)

 

Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO3
Veyrat, C. Deprez, A. Coissard, X. Li, F. Gay, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Han, B. Piot, H. Sellier, B. Sacépé Science 367, 781 (2020)

 

2019

Extreme Sensitivity of the Superconducting State in Thin Films
I. Tamir, A. Benyamini, E. J. Telford, F. Gorniaczyk, A. Doron, T. Levinson, D. Wang, F. Gay, B. Sacépé, J. Hone, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. R. Dean, A. N. Pasupathy, D. Shahar
Science Advances 5:eaau3826 (2019)

 

Low Magnetic Field Regime of a Gate-Defined Quantum Point Contact in High-Mobility Graphene
Louis Veyrat, Anna Jordan, Katrin Zimmermann, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takeshi Taniguchi, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé
Nano Letters, 19, 635 (2019)

 

Collective energy gap of preformed Cooper-pairs in disordered superconductors
Thomas Dubouchet, Benjamin Sacépé, Johanna Seidemann, Dan Shahar, Marc Sanquer, Claude Chapelier
Nature Physics 15, 233 (2019)

 

Joule overheating poisons the fractional ac Josephson effect in topological Josephson junctions
K. Le Calvez, L. Veyrat, F. Gay, P. Plaindoux, C. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, B. Sacépé
Communications Physics, 2:4 (2019)

 

Low-temperature anomaly in disordered superconductors near Bc2 as a vortex-glass property
B. Sacépé, J. Seidemann, F. Gay, K. Davenport, A. Rogachev, M. Ovadia, K. Michaeli, M. V. Feigel’man
Nature Physics 15, 48-53 (2019) 

 

 

2018

Johanna Lieb, Valeria Demontis, Daniele Ercolani, Valentina Zannier, Lucia Sorba, Shimpei Ono, Fabio Beltram, Benjamin Sacépé, Francesco Rossella
Advance Functional Materials (2018)
 

Pair-breaking quantum phase transtition in superconducting nanowires
H. Kim, F. Gay, A. Del Maestro, B. Sacépé, A. Rogachev
Nature Physics 14, 912 (2018)

 

 

2017

prl2Instability of Insulators near Quantum Phase Transitions
Adam Doron, Idan Tamir, Tal Levinson, Maoz Ovadia, Benjamin Sacépé, Dan Shahar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 247001 (2017)

 

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Tunable transmission of quantum Hall edge channels with full degeneracy lifting in split-gated graphene devices

K. Zimmmermann, A. Jordan, F. Gay, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Han, V. Bouchiat, H. Sellier, B. Sacépé
Nature Communications, 8:14983 (2017)

 

Tunable sub-gap radiation detection with superconducting resonators
O. Dupré, A. Benoît, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, J. Goupy, C. Hoarau, T. Klein, K. Le Calvez, B. Sacépé, A. Monfardini and F. Levy-Bertrand
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 30, 045007 (2017)

 

2016

Relaxation of the resistive superconducting state in boron-doped diamond films
Kardakova, A. Shishkin, A. Semenov, S. Ryabchun, J. Bousquet, D. Eon, B. Sacepe, Th. Klein, E. Bustarret, G.N. Goltsman, T.M. Klapwijk
Phys. Rev. B, 93, 064506, (2016)

 

Interplay Between Electron Over-Heating and ac Josephson Effect
Alessandro De Cecco, Kévin Le Calvez, Benjamin Sacépé, Clemens Winkelmann, Hervé Courtois
Phys. Rev. B 93, 180505 (2016)

 

2010 – 2015

Disorder and screening in decoupled graphene on a metallic substrate,
C. Martin, S. Samaddar, B. Sacépé, A. Kimouche, J. Coraux, F. Fuchs, B. Grévin, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann,
Phys. Rev. B 91, 041406(R) (2015)

 

Evidence for a Finite Temperature Transition
M. Ovadia, D. Kalok, I. Tamir, S. Mitra, B. Sacépé, D. Shahar,
Scientific Reports, Aug. (2015)

 

High-field termination of a Cooper-pair insulator,
B. Sacépé, J. Seidemann, M. Ovadia, I. Tamir, D. Shahar, C. Chapelier, C. Strunk, B. Piot,
Phys. Rev. B 91, 220508(R) (2015)

 

 Collapse of superconductivity in a hybrid tin-graphene Josephson junction array,
Z. Han, A. Allain, A. Arjmandi-Tash, K. Tikhonov, M. Feigel’man, B. Sacépé, V. Bouchiat,
Nature Physics 10, 380 (2014)

 

Niobium based superconducting nano-device fabrication using all-metal suspended masks junction array,
S. Samaddar, D. van Zanten, A. Fey, B. Sacépé, H. Courtois, C. Winkelmann ,
Nanotechnology 24, 375304 (2013)

 

NatPhys
Duality symmetry and its breakdown in the vicinity of the superconductor-insulator transition,
M. Ovadia, D. Kalok, B. Sacépé, D. Shahar,
Nature Physics 9, 415 (2013)

 

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Gate-tuned normal and superconducting transport at the surface of a topological insulator,
B. Sacépé, J. Oostinga, J. Li, A. Ubaldini, N. Couto, E. Giannini, A. Morpurgo,
Nature Communications 2:575 (2011)

 

prl2Transport through Graphene on SrTiO3,
N. Couto, B. Sacépé, A. Morpurgo,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 225501 (2011)

 

NatPhys
Localization of preformed Cooper-pairs in disordered superconductors,
B. Sacépé, T. Dubouchet, C. Chapelier, M. Sanquer, M. Ovadia, D. Shahar, M. Feigel’man and L. Ioffe,
Nature Physics 7, 239 (2011)

 

prl2Two-Dimensional Quantum Oscillations of the Conductance at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces,
A. Caviglia, S. Gariglio, C. Cancellieri, B. Sacépé, A. Fete, N. Reyren, M. Gabay, A. Morpurgo, and J. M. Triscone,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 236802 (2010)

 

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Pseudogap in a thin film of a conventional superconductor,
B. Sacépé, C. Chapelier, T Baturina, V. Vinokur, M. Baklanov, and M. Sanquer,
Nature Communications 1:140 (2010)

 

Magnetotransport through graphene nanoribbons,
J. Oostinga, B. Sacépé, M. Craciun and A. Morpurgo,
Phys. Rev. B 81, 193408 (2010)

 

 

2005 – 2010

prl2thumb_EditorsSuggestionElectron-Phonon Decoupling in Disordered Insulators,
M. Ovadia, B. Sacépé, and D. Shahar,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 176802 (2009)

 

prl2Disorder-Induced Inhomogeneities of the Superconducting State Close to the Superconductor-Insulator Transition,
B. Sacépé, C. Chapelier, T.I. Baturina, V.M. Vinokur, M.R. Baklanov, and M. Sanquer,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 157006 (2008)

 

Metal-to-insulator transition and superconductivity in boron-doped diamond,
B.Sacépé, C. Chapelier, C. Marcenat, J. Kacmarcik, T. Klein, M. Bernard, and E. Bustarret,
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London A 366, 267 (2008)

 

Experimental indication of a BCS behaviour in superconducting diamond,
B. Sacépé, C. Chapelier, C. Marcenat, J. Kacmarcik, T. Klein, F. Omnes, and E. Bustarret,
Phys. Stat. Sol. A 203, 3315 (2006)

 

prl2Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in Boron-Doped Diamond,
B. Sacépé, C. Chapelier, C. Marcenat, J. Kacmarcik, T. Klein, M. Bernard, and E. Bustarret,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097006 (2006)

 

Superconducting diamagnetic fluctuations in ropes of carbon nanotubes,
M. Ferrier, F. Ladieu, M. Ocio, B. Sacépé, T. Vaugien, V. Pichot, P. Launois, H. Bouchiat,
Phys. Rev. B. 73, 094520 (2006)

 

 

 

PhD Theses

Katrin Zimmermann (2016) : Quantum point contact in high mobility graphene

Kévin Le Calvez (2017) : Signatures of a 4π-periodic Andreev bound state in topological Josephson junctions

Johanna Seidemann (2017) : Iontronics – Field effect study of different devices, using techniques of ionic liquid gating

Corentin Déprez (2021) : Helical edge transport and Fabry-Pérot interferometry in graphene quantum Hall effect

Marco Guerra (2022) : Electron optics in ballistic graphene studied by scanning gate microscopy

Alexis Coissard (2022) : The many-body ground states of the graphene quantum Hall effect and their edge channels

Thibault Charpentier (2023)

Hadrien Vignaud (2023)