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We investigate the impact of transport current on the superconducting order parameter in superconducting islands in full-shell epitaxial Al-InAs nanowires. Depending on a device layout, the suppression of superconductivity occurs in three…

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Recent studies of silicon spin qubits at temperatures above 1 K are encouraging demonstrations that the cooling requirements for solid-state quantum computing can be considerably relaxed. However, qubit readout mechanisms that rely on…

Superconducting quantum circuits provide a versatile platform for studying quantum materials by leveraging precise microwave control and utilizing the tools of circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED). Hybrid circuit devices incorporating…

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By solving the Bogoliubov - de Gennes equation self-consistently in the presence of a non-equilibrium quasi-particle distribution, we compute the current-voltage characteristic of a phase coherent superconducting island with a tunnel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A Martin , CJ Lambert

We study a hybrid device defined in an InAs nanowire with an epitaxial Al shell that consists of a quantum dot in contact with a superconducting island. The device is electrically floating, prohibiting transport measurements, but providing…

An analytical expression for the supercurrent of a superconducting single-electron transistor (SSET) is derived. The derivation is based on analogy between the model Hamiltonian for E_J>E_C and a discrete, one-dimensional harmonic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Aunola

We investigate a non-equilibrium aspect of the current-driven superconducting-normal phase transition in floating Al islands of epitaxial full-shell Al/InAs nanowires. Within a transition region discontinuous voltage jumps and hysteretic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 E. V. Shpagina , E. S. Tikhonov , D. Ruhstorfer , G. Koblmueller , V. S. Khrapai

We present simultaneous operation of ten single-electron turnstiles leading to one order of magnitude increase in current level up to 100 pA. Our analysis of device uniformity and background charge stability implies that the parallelization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-07 V. F. Maisi , Yu. A. Pashkin , S. Kafanov , J. S. Tsai , J. P. Pekola

The notion of a spin field effect transistor, where transistor action is realized by manipulating the spin degree of freedom of charge carriers instead of the charge degree of freedom, has captivated researchers for at least three decades.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Heat is detrimental for the operation of quantum systems, yet it fundamentally behaves according to quantum mechanics, being phase coherent and universally quantum-limited regardless of its carriers. Due to their robustness, superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Olivier Maillet , Diego Subero , Joonas T. Peltonen , Dmitry S. Golubev , Jukka P. Pekola

We propose a quantum interference spin-injector nanodevice consisting of a superconductor-normal metal hybrid loop connected to a superconductor-ferromagnet bilayer via a tunneling junction. We show that for certain values of the applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We report on millikelvin charge sensing measurements of a silicon double-dot system fabricated by phosphorus ion implantation. An aluminum single-electron transistor (SET) is capacitively coupled to each of the implanted dots enabling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. C. Chan , T. M. Buehler , A. J. Ferguson , D. R. McCamey , D. J. Reilly , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark , C. Yang , D. N. Jamieson

We study a superconducting single-electron transistor (SSET) which is coupled to a LC-oscillator via the phase difference across one of the Josephson junctions. This leads to a strongly anharmonic coupling between the SSET and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-02 M. Marthaler , J. Leppäkangas , J. H. Cole

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

By using the Schwinger-Keldysh approach, we evaluate the current noise and the charge noise of the single-electron transistor (SET) in the regime of large charge fluctuations caused by large tunneling conductance. Our result interpolates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Hiroshi Imamura , Masahiko Hayashi , Hiromichi Ebisawa

Analysis of room-temperature current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a silicon box in a nanopillar transistor suggests that a weak electromechanical coupling of 0.17 is responsible for the stable tunnel of single-electron. The dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 Yue-Min Wan , Heng-Tien Lin

We report the detection of a gate-tunable kinetic inductance in a hybrid InAs/Al nanowire. For this purpose, we have embedded the nanowire into a quarter-wave coplanar waveguide resonator and measured the resonance frequency of the circuit.…

We propose a new design for a quantum bit with four superconducting islands in the topology of a symmetric tetrahedron, uniformly frustrated with one-half flux-quantum per loop and one-half Cooper-pair per island. This structure emulates a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Feigel'man , L. B. Ioffe , V. B. Geshkenbein , P. Dayal , G. Blatter

A split gate technique is used to form a lateral quantum dot in a two-dimensional electron gas of a modulation-doped silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructure. e-beam lithography was employed to produce split gates. By applying negative…

We propose that a pertinently engineered double superconducting island connected to two spinless one-dimensional conducting leads can work as a tunable (iso)spin Kondo and charge Kondo system, with the lead index regarded as an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Domenico Giuliano , Luca Lepori , Andrea Nava