Subradiant Split Cooper Pairs

Audrey Cottet; Takis Kontos; Alfredo Levy Yeyati

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.166803

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Subradiant Split Cooper Pairs

Audrey Cottet, Takis Kontos, Alfredo Levy Yeyati

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.166803 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We suggest a way to characterize the coherence of the split Cooper pairs emitted by a double-quantum-dot based Cooper pair splitter (CPS), by studying the radiative response of such a CPS inside a microwave cavity. The coherence of the split pairs manifests in a strongly nonmonotonic variation of the emitted radiation as a function of the parameters controlling the coupling of the CPS to the cavity. The idea to probe the coherence of the electronic states using the tools of cavity quantum electrodynamics could be generalized to many other nanoscale circuits.