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We have realized a hybrid solid-state quantum device in which a single-electron semiconductor double quantum dot is dipole coupled to a superconducting microwave frequency transmission line resonator. The dipolar interaction between the two…

A few-electron double quantum dot was fabricated using metal-oxide-semiconductor(MOS)-compatible technology and low-temperature transport measurements were performed to study the energy spectrum of the device. The double dot structure is…

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We review recent transport experiments that reveal two-threshold voltage-current characteristics, marked by a significant increase in noise between the two threshold voltages, at low electron densities in the insulating regime in…

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Superconducting circuits incorporating Josephson tunnel junctions are widely used for fundamental research as well as for applications in fields such as quantum information and magnetometry. The quantum coherent nature of Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 L. Peyruchat , J. Griesmar , J. -D. Pillet , Ç. Ö. Girit

A current due to a tunneling event that involves three times the charge of an electron was observed in the current - voltage characteristics of a superconducting single-electron tunneling transistor. In this tunnel event, a Cooper pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Hadley , E. Delvigne , E. H. Visscher , S. Lahteenmaki , J. E. Mooij

A new variational method for studying the equilibrium states of an interacting particles system has been proposed. The statistical description of the system is realized by means of a density matrix. This method is used for description of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Boris Bondarev

Tuning a material to the cusp between two distinct ground states can produce exotic physical properties, unlike those in either of the neighboring phases. The prospect of designing a model experimental system to capture such behavior is…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators has been recognized as a promising platform for applications in quantum metrology. The primary reason for this is the electronic conductance quantization at zero external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kajetan M. Fijalkowski , Nan Liu , Martin Klement , Steffen Schreyeck , Karl Brunner , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We present measurements on hybrid single-electron turnstiles with superconducting leads contacting a normal island (SINIS). We observe Andreev tunneling of electrons influencing the current plateau characteristics of the turnstiles under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 T. Aref , V. F. Maisi , M. V. Gustafsson , P. Delsing , J. P. Pekola

Solid-state devices can be fabricated at the atomic scale, with applications ranging from classical logic to current standards and quantum technologies. While it is very desirable to probe these devices and the quantum states they host at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Kevin S. H. Ng , Benoit Voisin , Brett C. Johnson , Jeffrey C. McCallum , Joe Salfi , Sven Rogge

Filling factor $\nu=1$ bilayer electron systems in the quantum Hall regime have an excitonic-condensate superfluid ground state when the layer separation $d$ is less than a critical value $d_c$. On a quantum Hall plateau current injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Abolfath , A. H. MacDonald , L. Radzihovsky

We have used a superconducting single-electron transistor as a DC-electrometer that is strongly coupled to the metal island of another transistor. With this set-up, it is possible to directly measure the charge distribution on this island.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Heij , P. Hadley , J. E. Mooij

Design and implementation of an optimal and robust single-loop voltage controller is proposed for single-phase grid forming voltage source inverter (VSI). The objective of the proposed controller is to have good reference tracking and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Soham Chakraborty , Sourav Patel , Murti V. Salapaka

A normal metal - superconductor hybrid single-electron trap with tunable barrier is utilized as a tool for spectrum analysis at the extremely low signal levels, using only well filtered cryogenic microwave background as a photon source in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-26 J. S. Lehtinen , E. Mykkänen , A. Kemppinen , D. Golubev , S. V. Lotkhov , A. J. Manninen

In semiconductor electronics, the field-effect refers to the control of electrical conductivity in nanoscale devices, which underpins the field-effect transistor, one of the cornerstones of present-day semiconductor technology. The effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Ilia Golokolenov , Andrew Guthrie , Sergey Kafanov , Yuri Pashkin , Viktor Tsepelin

We propose an efficient method of heat rectification in a simple system consisting of a quantum dot asymmetrically coupled to four mutually perpendicular electrodes. In such a device the Hall-like charge and heat currents appear in response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Karol I. Wysokiński

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

Owing to a few unique advantages, double-dot single electron transistor has been proposed as an alternative detector for charge states. In this work, we present a further study for its signal-to-noise property, based on a full analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 HuJun Jiao , Xin-Qi Li , JunYan Luo

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

A single hole transistor is patterned in a p-Si/SiGe quantum well by applying voltages to nanostructured top gate electrodes. Gating is achieved by oxidizing the etched semiconductor surface and the mesa walls before evaporation of the top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Doetsch , U. Gennser , T. Heinzel , S. Luescher , C. David , G. Dehlinger , D. Gruetzmacher , K. Ensslin