Coulomb blockade of Cooper pair tunneling and parity effects in the Cooper pair transistor

We have measured the Cooper pair transistor (CPT) in a tunable electromagnetic environment consisting of four one-dimensional superconducting quantum interference device arrays. The transport properties of the CPT in the high impedance limit, Z(env)> R-Q similar or equal to 6.45 k Omega, are...

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Published in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2006-12, Vol.74 (22), Article 224505
Main Authors: Corlevi, S., Guichard, W., Hekking, F. W. J., Haviland, D. B.
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Language:English
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Fysik
NATURAL SCIENCES
NATURVETENSKAP
Physics
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Summary:We have measured the Cooper pair transistor (CPT) in a tunable electromagnetic environment consisting of four one-dimensional superconducting quantum interference device arrays. The transport properties of the CPT in the high impedance limit, Z(env)> R-Q similar or equal to 6.45 k Omega, are studied for different ratios of the Josephson coupling energy to the charging energy. As the impedance of the environment is increased, the current-voltage characteristic (IVC) of the CPT develops a Coulomb blockade of Cooper pair tunneling and the measured IVCs agree qualitatively with a theory based on quasicharge dynamics for a CPT. Increasing the impedance of the environment induces a transition in the modulation of the IVC with the gate charge from e-periodic to 2e-periodic.
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X
1550-235X
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.74.224505