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 . 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