COMBINED SINGLE-ELECTRON AND COHERENT-COOPER-PAIR TUNNELING IN VOLTAGE-BIASED JOSEPHSON-JUNCTIONS

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作者
VANDENBRINK, AM
SCHON, G
GEERLIGS, LJ
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[1] Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CJ Delft
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.3030
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Small-capacitance tunnel junctions show single-electron effects and, in the superconducting state, the coherent tunneling of Cooper pairs. We study these effects in a system of two voltage-biased Josephson junctions in series. Novel features show up in the I-V characteristics, in particular, pronounced structures at subgap voltages. These are due to combined quasiparticle and pair tunneling and to higher-order Cooper-pair tunneling processes. Several of them have been observed in experiments.
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页码:3030 / 3033
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