Coulomb effects in a ballistic one-channel S-S-S device
Abstract
We develop a theory of Coulomb oscillations in superconducting devices in the limit of small charging energy . 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 , 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 with period .
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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