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Superconducting atomic contacts inductively coupled to a microwave resonator

Superconductivity 2015-01-16 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We describe and characterize a microwave setup to probe the Andreev levels of a superconducting atomic contact. The contact is part of a superconducting loop inductively coupled to a superconducting coplanar resonator. By monitoring the resonator reflection coefficient close to its resonance frequency as a function of both flux through the loop and frequency of a second tone we perform spectroscopy of the transition between two Andreev levels of highly transmitting channels of the contact. The results indicate how to perform coherent manipulation of these states.

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@article{arxiv.1409.8065,
  title  = {Superconducting atomic contacts inductively coupled to a microwave resonator},
  author = {C. Janvier and L. Tosi and Ç. Ö. Girit and M. F. Goffman and H. Pothier and C. Urbina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8065},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, 10 figures, to appear in special issue on break-junctions in JOPCM