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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-00397-z
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- European Research Council [681164]
- Spanish MINECO [FIS2014-55486-P, FIS2017-84057-P, FIS2017-84860-R]
- Maria de Maeztu Programme for Units of Excellence in RD [MDM-2014-0377]
- Zeiss Foundation
- DFG [AN336/11-1, SFB 767]
- IQST
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The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of a superconductor on a local scale. We use atomic manipulation in a low temperature STM to create mesoscopic single channel contacts and study the Josephson effect at arbitrary transmissions. We observe significant deviations from the Ambegaokar-Baratoff formula relating the critical current to the order parameter starting from transmissions of tau > 0.1. Using the full current-phase relation, we model the Josephson effect in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime, where the charging energy of the junction capacitance cannot be neglected, and find excellent agreement with the experimental data. Projecting the current-phase relation onto the charge transfer operator shows that at high transmission, non-linear behaviour arises and multiple Cooper pair tunneling may occur. Our model includes these deviations, which become non-negligible in Josephson-STM, for example, when scanning across single adatoms. Many features of a superconductor are encoded in the Josephson effect and understanding changes at the local level can help explain related phenomena. Here, the authors use scanning tunnelling microscopy to study local changes in the Josephson effect and how they relate to the transport channel configuration.
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