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Nature Physics 2, 155 - 156 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys252

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology

Carbon nanotubes: The weakest link

Marc Bockrath1

  1. Marc Bockrath is in the Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. e-mail: mwb@caltech.edu


What happens if the 'weak link' between two superconductors in a Josephson junction is a carbon nanotube, with a limited number of states available for electron transport? A supercurrent flows, but in a unique fashion.

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