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Resonant tunneling through a macroscopic charge state in a superconducting SET transistor

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We predict theoretically and observe in experiment that the differential conductance of a superconducting SET transistor exhibits a peak which is a complete analogue in a macroscopic system of a standard resonant tunneling peak associated with tunneling through a single quantum state. In particular, in a symmetric transistor, the peak height is universal and equal to e2/2πe^2/2\pi \hbar. Away from the resonance we clearly observe the co-tunneling current which in contrast to the normal-metal transistor varies linearly with the bias voltage.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9701213,
  title  = {Resonant tunneling through a macroscopic charge state in a superconducting SET transistor},
  author = {D. V. Averin and A. N. Korotkov and A. J. Manninen and J. P. Pekola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9701213},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures, Fig. 1 available upon request from the first author