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arXiv:cond-mat/0402045 · Physical Review Letters

Inductive Single-Electron Transistor

Mika A. Sillanpää, Leif Roschier, Pertti Juhani Hakonen

Published Aug 6, 2004• 45 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a sensitive method of charge detection based on radio-frequency readout of the Josephson inductance of a superconducting single-electron transistor. Charge sensitivity 1.4 x 10(-4) e/square root Hz, limited by a preamplifier, is achieved in an operation mode which takes advantage of the nonlinearity of the Josephson potential. Owing to reactive readout, our setup has more than 2 orders of magnitude lower dissipation than the existing method of radio-frequency electrometry. With an optimized sample, we expect uncoupled energy sensitivity below variant Planck's over h in the same experimental scheme.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.93.066805

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