Superconductivity in a single C60 transistor

Details Superconductivity in a single C60 transistor Superconductivity in a single C60 transistor

2009-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/0908.3638v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

12 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Single molecule transistors (SMTs) are currently attracting enormous attention as possible quantum information processing devices. An intrinsic limitation to the prospects of these however is associated to the presence of a small number of quantized conductance channels, each channel having a high access resistance of at best $R_{K}/2=h/2e^{2}$=12.9 k$\Omega$. When the contacting leads become superconducting, these correlations can extend throughout the whole system by the proximity effect. This not only lifts the resistive limitation of normal state contacts, but further paves a new way to probe electron transport through a single molecule. In this work, we demonstrate the realization of superconducting SMTs involving a single C60 fullerene molecule. The last few years have seen gate-controlled Josephson supercurrents induced in the family of low dimensional carbon structures such as flakes of two-dimensional graphene and portions of one-dimensional carbon nanotubes. The present study involving a full zero-dimensionnal fullerene completes the picture.

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