Thursday, June 27, 2013

1306.6304 (J. Zimmer et al.)

Thermally activated conductance in arrays of small Josephson junctions    [PDF]

J. Zimmer, N. Vogt, A. Fiebig, S. V. Syzranov, A. Lukashenko, R. Schäfer, H. Rotzinger, A. Shnirman, M. Marthaler, A. V. Ustinov
We present measurements of the temperature-dependent conductance for series arrays of small-capacitance SQUIDs. At low bias voltages, the arrays exhibit a strong Coulomb blockade, which we study in detail as a function of temperature and Josephson energy $E_J$. We find that the zero-bias conductance is well described by thermally activated charge transport with the activation energy on the order of $\Lambda E_C$, where $\Lambda$ is the charge screening length in the array and $E_C$ is the charging energy of a single SQUID.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6304

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