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Voltage staircase in a current-biased quantum-dot Josephson junction

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arxiv 2102.03114 v3 pith:ZTLUO3XA submitted 2021-02-05 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.supr-con

Voltage staircase in a current-biased quantum-dot Josephson junction

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keywords josephsonjunctionandreevcharacteristicnumberoscillationsqubitrabi
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We calculate the current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of a Josephson junction containing a resonant level in the weakly coupled regime (resonance width small compared to the superconducting gap). The phase $\phi$ across the junction becomes time dependent in response to a DC current bias. Rabi oscillations in the Andreev levels produce a staircase I-V characteristic. The number of voltage steps counts the number of Rabi oscillations per $2\pi$ increment of $\phi$, providing a way to probe the coherence of the qubit in the absence of any external AC driving. The phenomenology is the same as the "Majorana-induced DC Shapiro steps in topological Josephson junctions" of Phys. Rev. B 102, 140501(R) (2020) -- but now for a non-topological Andreev qubit.

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