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A superconducting single-electron transistor (SSET) coupled to an anharmonic oscillator, e.g., a Josephson junction-L-C circuit, can drive the latter to a nonequilibrium photon number state. By biasing the SSET in a regime where the current…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marthaler , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman

Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) generally emerge in superconducting systems where both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken, showing nonreciprocal current characteristics: nondissipative in one direction and ohmic in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Jiajun Ma , Ruiya Zhan , Xiao Lin

The extraction of transition frequencies from a spectrum has conventionally relied on empirical methods, and particularly in complex systems, it is a time-consuming and cumbersome process. To address this challenge, we establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 A. Tomonaga , H. Mukai , K. Mizuno , J. S. Tsai

The theory of hole superconductivity proposes that superconductivity originates in the fundamental electron-hole asymmetry of condensed matter and that it is an 'undressing' transition. Here we propose that a natural consequence of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Hirsch

We study a superconducting single-charge transistor, where the coherence of Cooper pair tunneling is destroyed by the coupling to a tunable dissipative environment. Sequential tunneling and cotunneling processes are analyzed to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schoen , Gergely T. Zimanyi

We investigate the properties of a hybrid single electron transistor, involving a small superconducting island sandwiched between normal metal leads, which is driven by dc plus ac voltages. In order to describe its properties we derive from…

In their original formulation of superconductivity, the London brothers predicted the exponential suppression of an $electrostatic$ field inside a superconductor over the so-called London penetration depth, $\lambda_L$. Despite a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 G. De Simoni , F. Paolucci , P. Solinas , E. Strambini , F. Giazotto

We show that a simple gravitational theory can provide a holographically dual description of a superconductor. There is a critical temperature, below which a charged condensate forms via a second order phase transition and the (DC)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hartnoll , Christopher P. Herzog , Gary T. Horowitz

A dual mode device behaving either as a field-effect transistor or a single electron transistor (SET) has been fabricated using silicon-on-insulator metal oxide semiconductor technology. Depending on the back gate polarisation, an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Benoît Roche , Benoit Voisin , Xavier Jehl , Romain Wacquez , Marc Sanquer , Maud Vinet , Veeresh Deshpande , Bernard Previtali

We have studied the environmental effect on superconducting single-electron transistors (S-SETs) by biasing S-SETs with arrays of small-capacitance dc SQUIDs, whose effective impedance can be varied in situ. As the zero-bias resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michio Watanabe , Koji Ishibashi , Yoshinobu Aoyagi

A model of superconductivity is proposed taking into account repulsive particle interaction, mesoscopic phase separation and softening of crystalline lattice. These features are typical of many high-temperature superconductors. The main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Coleman , E. P. Yukalova , V. I. Yukalov

We present a microscopic theory of the superconducting proximity effect in a semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit interaction ($N_{SO}$) in an external magnetic field. We demonstrate that an effective 1D Hamiltonian which describes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-03 A. V. Burmistrova , I. A. Devyatov , I. E. Batov

Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) occur in systems with asymmetric critical supercurrents $|I^c_+|\neq |I^c_-|$ yielding dissipationless flow in one direction $(e.g., +)$, while dissipative transport in the opposite direction $(-)$. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-21 Xian-Peng Zhang

Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). So far, SD effects have been reported in complex hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto

The superconducting transition in High Temperature Superconductors(HTS) has not been understood. Traditional Bose Einstein Condensation(BEC) theory provides Tc estimates that are many times higher than the experimental values. The proposed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-05 Vladimir Y. Butko

We have directly measured the quantum noise of a superconducting single-electron transistor (S-SET) embedded in a microwave resonator consisting of a superconducting LC tank circuit. Using an effective bath description, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 W. W. Xue , Z. Ji , Feng Pan , Joel Stettenheim , A. J. Rimberg

We have incorporated an aluminum single electron transistor (SET) directly on top of a vertical quantum dot, enabling the use of the SET as an electrometer that is extremely responsive to the motion of charge into and out of the dot. Charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Koltonyuk , D. Berman , N. B. Zhitenev , R. C. Ashoori , N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

Superconducting diode effects (SDE), both in bulk superconductors and in Josephson junctions, have garnered a lot of attention due to potential applications in classical and quantum computing, as well as superconducting sensors. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Daniel Shaffer , Alex Levchenko

Using a classical equation of motion, dynamics of the phase is analyzed in the Inductive Single-Electron Transistor (L-SET) which is a promising new system suitable for quantum measurement with ultimate sensitivity and low back-action. In a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mika A. Sillanpää , Leif Roschier , Pertti J. Hakonen