- Letter
Supercurrent transport through -periodic full-shell Coulomb islands
Phys. Rev. B 109, L041302 – Published 19 January, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L041302
Abstract
We experimentally investigate supercurrent through Coulomb islands, where island and leads are fabricated from semiconducting nanowires with fully surrounding superconducting shells. Applying flux along the wire yields a series of destructive Little-Parks lobes with reentrant supercurrent. We find Coulomb blockade with peak spacing in the zeroth lobe and average spacing, with regions of significant even-odd modulation, in the first lobe. Evolution of Coulomb-peak amplitude through the first lobe is consistent with a theoretical model of supercurrent carried predominantly by zero-energy states in the leads and the island.