Critical current fluctuations in graphene Josephson junctions

Mohammad T. Haque; Marco Will; Matti Tomi; Preeti Pandey; Manohar Kumar; Felix Schmidt; Kenji Watanabe; Takashi Taniguchi; Romain Danneau; Gary Steele; Pertti Hakonen

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-99398-3

Critical current fluctuations in graphene Josephson junctions

Mohammad T. Haque^*
, Marco Will
, Matti Tomi
, Preeti Pandey
, Manohar Kumar
, Felix Schmidt
, Kenji Watanabe
, Takashi Taniguchi
, Romain Danneau
, Gary Steele
, Pertti Hakonen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft
National Institute for Materials Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Abstract

We have studied 1/f noise in critical current I_c in h-BN encapsulated monolayer graphene contacted by NbTiN electrodes. The sample is close to diffusive limit and the switching supercurrent with hysteresis at Dirac point amounts to ≃ 5 nA. The low frequency noise in the superconducting state is measured by tracking the variation in magnitude and phase of a reflection carrier signal v_rf at 600–650 MHz. We find 1/f critical current fluctuations on the order of δI_c/ I_c≃ 10 ^{- 3} per unit band at 1 Hz. The noise power spectrum of critical current fluctuations SIc measured near the Dirac point at large, sub-critical rf-carrier amplitudes obeys the law SIc/Ic2=a/fβ where a≃ 4 × 10 ^{- 6} and β≃ 1 at f> 0.1 Hz. Our results point towards significant fluctuations in I_c originating from variation of the proximity induced gap in the graphene junction.

Original language	English
Article number	19900
Number of pages	10
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99398-3
Publication status	Published - 6 Oct 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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We are grateful to Dmitry Golubev, Andreas Hüttel, Alexander Melnikov, and Elisabetta Paladino for discussions. This work was supported by the Academy of Finland projects 314448 (BOLOSE), 310086 (LTnoise) and 336813 (CoE, Quantum Technology Finland) as well as partly by ERC (Grant No. 670743) and COST Action CA16218 (NANOCOHYBRI). This research project utilized the Aalto University OtaNano/LTL infrastructure which is part of European Microkelvin Platform EMP (funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Grant No. 824109). MTH acknowledges support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation under Grant Agreement No. 722923 (Marie Curie ETN - OMT). This work was partly supported by Helmholtz society through program STN and the DFG via the projects DA 1280/3-1. FS and GS acknowledge funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 785219 - GrapheneCore2. KW and TT acknowledge support from the Elemental Strategy Initiative conducted by the MEXT, Japan, Grant No. JPMXP0112101001 and JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. JP20H00354.

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