Inductive Single-Electron Transistor

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© 2004 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Sillanpää, Mika A. & Roschier, Leif & Hakonen, Pertti J. 2004. Inductive Single-Electron Transistor. Physical Review Letters. Volume 93, Issue 6. 066805/1-4. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.066805, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.066805.

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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2004

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en

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066805/1-4

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 93, Issue 6

Abstract

We demonstrate a sensitive method of charge detection based on radio-frequency readout of the Josephson inductance of a superconducting single-electron transistor. Charge sensitivity 1.4×10−4   e/√Hz, limited by a preamplifier, is achieved in an operation mode which takes advantage of the nonlinearity of the Josephson potential. Owing to reactive readout, our setup has more than 2 orders of magnitude lower dissipation than the existing method of radio-frequency electrometry. With an optimized sample, we expect uncoupled energy sensitivity below ℏ in the same experimental scheme.

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single-electron transistors, mesoscopic detectors, radio-frequencies, quantum measurements, Cooper pair tunneling, Josephson effect

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Sillanpää, Mika A. & Roschier, Leif & Hakonen, Pertti J. 2004. Inductive Single-Electron Transistor. Physical Review Letters. Volume 93, Issue 6. 066805/1-4. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.066805.