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Fast electron thermometry towards ultra-sensitive calorimetric detection

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-01-29 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate radiofrequency thermometry on a micrometer-sized metallic island below 100 mK. Our device is based on a normal metal-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction coupled to a resonator with transmission readout. In the first generation of the device, we achieve 90 {\mu}K/Hz^1/2 noise-equivalent temperature with 10 MHz bandwidth. We measure the thermal relaxation time of the electron gas in the island, which we find to be of the order of 100 {\mu}s. Such a calorimetric detector, upon optimization, can be seamlessly integrated into superconducting circuits, with immediate applications in quantum-thermodynamics experiments down to single quanta of energy.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7568,
  title  = {Fast electron thermometry towards ultra-sensitive calorimetric detection},
  author = {S. Gasparinetti and K. L. Viisanen and O. -P. Saira and T. Faivre and M. Arzeo and M. Meschke and J. P. Pekola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7568},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6+4 pages, 4+4 figures

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