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Single-walled carbon nanotube weak links: from Fabry-P\'{e}rot to Kondo regime

Superconductivity 2008-09-22 v2

Abstract

We have investigated proximity-induced supercurrents in single-walled carbon nanotubes in the Kondo regime and compared them with supercurrents obtained on the same tube with Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonances. Our data display a wide distribution of Kondo temperatures \emph{TKT_K} = 1 - 14 K, and the measured critical current ICMI_{CM} vs. \emph{TKT_K} displays two distinct branches; these branches, distinguished by zero-bias splitting of the normal-state Kondo conductance peak, differ by an order of magnitude at large values of TKT_K. Evidence for renormalization of Andreev levels in Kondo regime is also found.

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@article{arxiv.0809.3386,
  title  = {Single-walled carbon nanotube weak links: from Fabry-P\'{e}rot to Kondo regime},
  author = {F. Wu and R. Danneau and P. Queipo and E. Kauppinen and T. Tsuneta and P. J. Hakonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.3386},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures