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Massimiliano Lucci1,2, Davide Cassi3, Vittorio Merlo1,2
1Dipartimento di Fisica and MINAS Lab, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", 00133 Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
Evidence is reported that topological effects in graph-shaped arrays of superconducting islands can condition superconducting energy gap and transition temperature. The carriers giving rise to the new phase are couples of electrons (Cooper pairs) which, in the superconducting state, behave as predicted for bosons in our structures. The presented results have been obtained both on star and double comb-shaped arrays and the coupling between the islands is provided by Josephson junctions whose potential can be tuned by external magnetic field or temperature. Our peculiar technique for probing distribution on the islands is such that the hopping of bosons between the different islands occurs because their thermal energy is of the same order of the Josephson coupling energy between the islands. Both for star and double comb graph topologies the results are in qualitative and quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions.
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