Superconducting single-mode contact as a microwave-activated quantum interferometer

Details Superconducting single-mode contact as a microwave-activated quantum interferometer Superconducting single-mode contact as a microwave-activated quantum interferometer

1998-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803013v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2538

The dynamics of a superconducting quantum point contact biased at subgap voltages is shown to be strongly affected by a microwave electromagnetic field. Interference among a sequence of temporally localized, microwave-induced Landau-Zener transitions between current carrying Andreev levels results in energy absorption and in an increase of the subgap current by several orders of magnitude. The contact is an interferometer in the sense that the current is an oscillatory function of the inverse bias voltage. Possible applications to Andreev-level spectroscopy and microwave detection are discussed.

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