Microwave irradiation and quasiparticles in a superconducting double dot
N. J. Lambert, A. A. Esmail, F. A. Pollock, M. Edwards, B. W. Lovett, A. J. Ferguson
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235413 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We study the interaction of the charge states of a superconducting double dot, comprising two superconducting islands coupled by a Josephson junction, with microwaves between 2 and 55 GHz. We observe resonant transitions between even-parity charge states at relatively low frequencies and breaking of Cooper pairs under higher-frequency irradiation, allowing our device to act as a click detector for microwave photons. By applying a magnetic field and tuning the pair-breaking energy, we perform spectroscopy on the environment in our cryostat and determine the temperature of a nonequilibrium photon bath. Finally, we exploit the band structure of our device to break Cooper pairs dependent on the symmetry of the initial Cooper pair state.
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