Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Parity transitions in the superconducting ground state of hybrid InSb–Al Coulomb islands

  • Jie Shen,
  • Sebastian Heedt,
  • Francesco Borsoi,
  • Bernard van Heck,
  • Sasa Gazibegovic,
  • Roy L. M. Op het Veld,
  • Diana Car,
  • John A. Logan,
  • Mihir Pendharkar,
  • Senja J. J. Ramakers,
  • Guanzhong Wang,
  • Di Xu,
  • Daniël Bouman,
  • Attila Geresdi,
  • Chris J. Palmstrøm,
  • Erik P. A. M. Bakkers,
  • Leo P. Kouwenhoven

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07279-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Understanding the ground state (GS) phase transitions in the quantum tunneling regime of a superconducting system is important for future qubit devices. Here, Shen, Heedt and Borsoi et al. report distinct types of fermion parity GS transitions as a function of magnetic field and gate voltages in a Coulomb-blockaded InSb–Al island.