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Conduction Channels of an InAs-Al nanowire Josephson weak link

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-09-28 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We present a quantitative characterization of an electrically tunable Josephson junction defined in an InAs nanowire proximitized by an epitax-ially-grown superconducting Al shell. The gate-dependence of the number of conduction channels and of the set of transmission coefficients are extracted from the highly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics. Although the transmissions evolve non-monotonically, the number of independent channels can be tuned, and configurations with a single quasi-ballistic channel achieved.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09150,
  title  = {Conduction Channels of an InAs-Al nanowire Josephson weak link},
  author = {M. F. Goffman and C. Urbina and H. Pothier and J. Nygård and C. M. Marcus and P. Krogstrup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09150},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Added reference in New Journal of Physics, corrected a few typos, and updated references