Effect of measurement on the periodicity of the Coulomb staircase of a superconducting box.

نویسندگان

  • J Männik
  • J E Lukens
چکیده

We report on the effect of the backaction of a single Cooper pair transistor electrometer (E) on the charge state of a superconducting box (B). The charge is e periodic in the gate bias of B when E is operated near voltages 2 Delta/e or 4 Delta/e. We show that this is due to quasiparticle poisoning of B at a rate proportional to the number of quasiparticle tunneling events in E per second. We are able to eliminate this backaction and recover 2e-charge periodicity using a new measurement method based on switching-current modulation of E.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 92 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004