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Microwave spectroscopy of a Cooper-pair transistor coupled to a lumped-element resonator

Matthew T. Bell, Lev B. Ioffe, Michael E. Gershenson

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.144512 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We have studied the microwave response of a single Cooper-pair transistor (CPT) coupled to a lumped-element microwave resonator. The resonance frequency of this circuit, fr, was measured as a function of the charge ng induced on the CPT island by the gate electrode and the phase difference across the CPT, φB, which was controlled by the magnetic flux in the superconducting loop containing the CPT. The observed fr(ng,φB) dependencies reflect the variations of the CPT Josephson inductance with ng and φB as well as the CPT excitation when the microwaves induce transitions between different quantum states of the CPT. The results are in excellent agreement with our simulations based on the numerical diagonalization of the circuit Hamiltonian. This agreement over the whole range of ng and φB is unexpected, because the relevant energies vary widely, from 0.1 to 3 K. The sensitivity of the CPT as an electrometer is peaked when the CPT excitation level approaches that of the microwave resonator.

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