Number fluctuations of sparse quasiparticles in a superconductor

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2011-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/1103.0758v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.106:167004,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.167004

We have directly measured quasiparticle number fluctuations in a thin film superconducting Al resonator in thermal equilibrium. The spectrum of these fluctuations provides a measure of both the density and the lifetime of the quasiparticles. We observe that the quasiparticle density decreases exponentially with decreasing temperature, as theoretically predicted, but saturates below 160 mK to 25-55 per cubic micron. We show that this saturation is consistent with the measured saturation in the quasiparticle lifetime, which also explains similar observations in qubit decoherence times.

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