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Supercurrent in a double quantum dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-04-28 v3

Abstract

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, IcI_c, as a function of dot occupation, related to doublet to singlet ground state transitions. Detuning of the energy levels offers a tuning knob for IcI_c, 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.

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@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

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