Kinetics of quasiparticle trapping in a Cooper-pair box

Details Kinetics of quasiparticle trapping in a Cooper-pair box Kinetics of quasiparticle trapping in a Cooper-pair box

2006-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611692v2

Phys. Rev. B 75, 184520 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

final version as published in PRB, 14 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.184520

We study the kinetics of the quasiparticle capture and emission process in a small superconducting island (Cooper-pair box) connected by a tunnel junction to a massive superconducting lead. At low temperatures, the charge on the box fluctuates between two states, even and odd in the number of electrons. Assuming that the odd-electron state has the lowest energy, we evaluate the distribution of lifetimes of the even- and odd-electron states of the Cooper-pair box. The lifetime in the even-electron state is an exponentially distributed random variable corresponding to a homogenous Poisson process of ``poisoning'' the island with a quasiparticle. The distribution of lifetimes of the odd-electron state may deviate from the exponential one. The deviations come from two sources - the peculiarity of the quasiparticle density of states in a superconductor and the possibility of quasiparticle energy relaxation via phonon emission. In addition to the lifetime distribution, we also find spectral density of charge fluctuations generated by capture and emission processes. The complex statistics of the quasiparticle dwell times in the Cooper-pair box may result in strong deviations of the noise spectrum from the Lorentzian form.

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