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Kondo resonance enhanced supercurrent in single wall carbon nanotube Josephson junctions

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We have contacted single wall carbon nanotubes grown by chemical vapor deposition to superconducting Ti/Al/Ti electrodes. The device, we here report on is in the Kondo regime exhibiting a four-fold shell structure, where a clear signature of the superconducting electrodes is observed below the critical temperature. Multiple Andreev reflections are revealed by sub-gap structure and a narrow peak in the differential conductance around zero bias is seen depending on the shell filling. We interpret the peak as a proximity induced supercurrent and examine its interplay with Kondo resonances.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601371,
  title  = {Kondo resonance enhanced supercurrent in single wall carbon nanotube Josephson junctions},
  author = {K. Grove-Rasmussen and H. Ingerslev Jørgensen and P. E. Lindelof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601371},
  year   = {2007}
}

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