Resonant Cooper-pair tunneling: Quantum noise and measurement characteristics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 176804/1-176804/4

  Clerk, A A ^a   Girvin, S M ^a   Nguyen, A K ^a   Stone, A D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPACITANCE; COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; HAMILTONIANS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

FANO FACTOR; JOSEPHSON QUASIPARTICLE RESONANCES; QUANTUM NOISE; RESONANT COOPER-PAIR TUNNELING; SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTOR;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0037152807     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.176804     Document Type: Article

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