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Quantum effects in small-capacitance high temperature superconducting tunneling junctions

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posted on 2024-11-15, 15:49 authored by Gustavo Alvarez, I Iguchi, Xiaolin WangXiaolin Wang, Shi DouShi Dou, Qiwen Yao
We investigated the effects of single electron charging energy in high temperature superconductors. Various phenomena originating from Coulomb blockade were observable in superconducting tunnel junctions. High quality tunneling junctions were fabricated from c-axis oriented NdBa2Cu3O7–delta/PrBa2Cu3O7–delta/NdBa2Cu3O7–delta thin film multilayers by the pulsed laser deposition method. The current-voltage characteristics (CVCs) show a Coulomb gap for Cooper pair tunneling when the charging energy exceeds the Josephson coupling energy. We found a regime in which the CVCs exhibit sharply defined Coulomb steps due to single electron dynamics and nonlinear tunneling rates. From the obtained Coulomb staircase, the tunneling resistance shows a quantum effect: It is modulated by the tunneling current in the form h/4e2RT~[sin(piI/I0)2/(piI/I0)]. We suggest an interpretation involving the quantum resistance h/e2 and the competition between the charging, Josephson, and thermal energies of the system. Our results give a perspective on a solid-state quantum system with considerable interest for direct application in quantum computing.

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This article was originally published as: Alvarez, GA, Iguchi, I, Wang, XL Dou, SX & Yao, QW, Quantum effects in small-capacitance high temperature superconducting tunneling junctions, Journal of Applied Physics, April 2006, 99(8), 08M514. Copyright American Institute of Physics. Original journal available here.

Journal title

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

99

Issue

8

Language

English

RIS ID

14231

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