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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 568-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3742
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- Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (NWO/FOM)
- Microsoft Corporation Station Q
- ERC
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The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier(1). This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference phi between the leads. In the presence of chiral and time-reversal symmetry of the Cooper pair tunnelling process(2), the current is strictly zero when phi vanishes. Only if these underlying symmetries are broken can the supercurrent for phi = 0 be finite(3-5). This corresponds to a ground state of the junction being offset by a phase phi(0), different from 0 or pi. Here, we report such a Josephson phi(0)-junction based on a nanowire quantum dot. We use a quantum interferometer device to investigate phase offsets and demonstrate that phi(0) can be controlled by electrostatic gating. Our results may have far-reaching implications for superconducting flux-and phase-defined quantum bits as well as for exploring topological superconductivity in quantum dot systems.
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