title: Enhanced superconductivity in aluminum-based hyperbolic metamaterials.
abstract: One of the most important goals of condensed matter physics is materials by design, i.e. the ability to reliably predict and design materials with a set of desired properties. A striking example is the deterministic enhancement of the superconducting properties of materials. Recent experiments have demonstrated that the metamaterial approach is capable of achieving this goal, such as tripling the critical temperature TCin Al-Al2O3epsilon near zero (ENZ) core-shell metamaterial superconductors. Here, we demonstrate that an Al/Al2O3hyperbolic metamaterial geometry is capable of a similar TCenhancement, while having superior transport and magnetic properties compared to the core-shell metamaterial superconductors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252, USA.
authors.forename: Vera N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Smolyaninova
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Prestigiacomo
authors.affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Osofsky
authors.affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
authors.forename: Heungsoo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bassim
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA.
authors.forename: Mumtaz M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Qazilbash
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Igor I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Smolyaninov