Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.161407
Keywords
carbon nanotubes; Josephson effect; Kondo effect; superconducting energy gap
Funding
- EU-STREP
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FOR 723]
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We investigate the Josephson current in a single wall carbon nanotube connected to superconducting electrodes. We focus on the parameter regime in which transport is dominated by Kondo physics. A sizeable supercurrent is observed for odd number of electrons on the nanotube when the Kondo temperature T-K is sufficiently large compared to the superconducting gap. On the other hand when, in the center of the Kondo ridge, T-K is slightly smaller than the superconducting gap, the supercurrent is found to be extremely sensitive to the gate voltage V-BG. Whereas it is largely suppressed at the center of the ridge, it shows a sharp increase at a finite value of V-BG. This increase can be attributed to a doublet-singlet transition of the spin state of the nanotube island leading to a pi shift in the current phase relation. This transition is very sensitive to the asymmetry of the contacts and is in good agreement with theoretical predictions.
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