Bibow E, Lafarge P, Lévy L P
Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, MPI-FKF and CNRS, BP 166, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jan 7;88(1):017003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.017003. Epub 2001 Dec 17.
We have measured transport in the Coulomb blockade regime through a quantum system consisting of two superconducting islands coupled by a Josephson junction. The double island is weakly connected to leads by small superconducting tunnel junctions. At low bias voltages, a new resonant transport process for Cooper pairs is observed. The results show that Cooper pair transport can be used as a probe of the macroscopic energy levels of the double island.