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Coulomb effects in a ballistic one-channel S-S-S device

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We develop a theory of Coulomb oscillations in superconducting devices in the limit of small charging energy ECΔE_C \ll \Delta. We consider a small superconducting grain of finite capacity connected to two superconducting leads by nearly ballistic single-channel quantum point contacts. The temperature is supposed to be very low, so there are no single-particle excitations on the grain. Then the behavior of the system may be described as quantum mechanics of the superconducting phase on the island. The Josephson energy as a function of this phase has two minima which become degenerate at the phase difference on the leads equal to π\pi, the tunneling amplitude between them being controlled by the gate voltage at the grain. We find the Josephson current and its low-frequency fluctuations and predict their periodic dependence on the induced charge Qx=CVgQ_x=C V_g with period 2e2e.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9712074,
  title  = {Coulomb effects in a ballistic one-channel S-S-S device},
  author = {D. A. Ivanov and M. V. Feigel'man},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9712074},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, REVTeX, 10 figures, uses epsf