Why shot noise does not generally detect pairing in mesoscopic superconducting tunnel junctions
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| author | Niu, Jiasen Bastiaans, Koen M. Ge, Jianfeng Tomar, Ruchi Jesudasan, John Raychaudhuri, Pratap Karrer, Max Kleiner, Reinhold Koelle, Dieter Barbier, Arnaud Driessen, Eduard F. C. Blanter, Yaroslav M. Allan, Milan P. |
| author_facet | Niu, Jiasen Bastiaans, Koen M. Ge, Jianfeng Tomar, Ruchi Jesudasan, John Raychaudhuri, Pratap Karrer, Max Kleiner, Reinhold Koelle, Dieter Barbier, Arnaud Driessen, Eduard F. C. Blanter, Yaroslav M. Allan, Milan P. |
| contents | The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the effective charge of the carrier. Shot noise spectroscopy thus enables, in principle, to determine the effective charge q of the charge carriers that tunnel. This can be used to detect electron pairing in superconductors: in the normal state, the noise corresponds to single electron tunneling (q = 1e), while in the paired state, the noise corresponds to q = 2e. Here, we use a newly developed amplifier to reveal that in typical mesoscopic superconducting junctions, the shot noise does not reflect the signatures of pairing and instead stays at a level corresponding to q = 1e. We show that transparency can control the shot noise and this q = 1e is due to the large number of tunneling channels with each having very low transparency. Our results indicate that in typical mesoscopic superconducting junctions one should expect q = 1e noise, and lead to design guidelines for junctions that allow the detection of electron pairing. |
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| spellingShingle | Why shot noise does not generally detect pairing in mesoscopic superconducting tunnel junctions Niu, Jiasen Bastiaans, Koen M. Ge, Jianfeng Tomar, Ruchi Jesudasan, John Raychaudhuri, Pratap Karrer, Max Kleiner, Reinhold Koelle, Dieter Barbier, Arnaud Driessen, Eduard F. C. Blanter, Yaroslav M. Allan, Milan P. Superconductivity The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the effective charge of the carrier. Shot noise spectroscopy thus enables, in principle, to determine the effective charge q of the charge carriers that tunnel. This can be used to detect electron pairing in superconductors: in the normal state, the noise corresponds to single electron tunneling (q = 1e), while in the paired state, the noise corresponds to q = 2e. Here, we use a newly developed amplifier to reveal that in typical mesoscopic superconducting junctions, the shot noise does not reflect the signatures of pairing and instead stays at a level corresponding to q = 1e. We show that transparency can control the shot noise and this q = 1e is due to the large number of tunneling channels with each having very low transparency. Our results indicate that in typical mesoscopic superconducting junctions one should expect q = 1e noise, and lead to design guidelines for junctions that allow the detection of electron pairing. |
| title | Why shot noise does not generally detect pairing in mesoscopic superconducting tunnel junctions |
| topic | Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02397 |