We demonstrate the Josephson effect in a serial double quantum dot defined in a nanowire with epitaxial superconducting leads. The supercurrent stability diagram adopts a honeycomb pattern with electron-hole and left-right reflection symmetry. We observe sharp discontinuities in the magnitude of the critical current, Ic, as a function of dot occupation, related to doublet to singlet ground state transitions. Detuning of the energy levels offers a tuning knob for Ic, which attains a maximum at zero detuning. The consistency between experiment and theory indicates that our device is a faithful realization of the two-impurity Anderson model.
@article{arxiv.1808.05837,
title = {Supercurrent in a double quantum dot},
author = {J. C. Estrada Saldaña and A. Vekris and G. Steffensen and R. Žitko and P. Krogstrup and J. Paaske and K. Grove-Rasmussen and J. Nygård},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05837},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, Supplemental Material available as ancillary file