Charge and current fluctuations in a superconducting single-electron transistor near a Cooper pair resonance

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Choi, Mahn Soo ^a,b   Plastina, Francesco ^c   Fazio, Rosario ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NOISE; OSCILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 0037438534     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.045105     Document Type: Article

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