Pico - Quantum Phenomena and Devices
We investigate mesoscopic physics and its sensor applications. The main focus is on charge transport and thermal properties of metallic, superconducting and hybrid nanostructures. Particular research topics include electronic thermometry and refrigeration, nonequilibrium effects, Josephson devices, quantized and coherent charge pumping, noise, fluctuations and full counting statistics of charge and heat transport.
Group leader: Jukka Pekola
Contact:
Tel: +358 40 700 9290, +358 50 344 2697
e-mail: jukka.pekola(at)aalto.fi
Coordinator:
Minna Günes
+358 50 3018442
e-mail: minna.gunes(at)aalto.fi
For more information, visit
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Research group members
Latest publications
Games for Quantum Physics Education
Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Caterina Foti, Cristina Lazzeroni, Sabrina Maniscalco, Zeki C. Seskir, Jacob Sherson, Carrie Ann Weidner, Marisa Michelini
2024
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
The variational quantum eigensolver self-consistent field method within a polarizable embedded framework
Erik Rosendahl Kjellgren, Peter Reinholdt, Aaron Fitzpatrick, Walter N. Talarico, Phillip W.K. Jensen, Stephan P.A. Sauer, Sonia Coriani, Stefan Knecht, Jacob Kongsted
2024
Journal of Chemical Physics
Applications of Superconductor–Normal Metal Interfaces
S. A. Lemziakov, B. Karimi, S. Nakamura, D. S. Lvov, R. Upadhyay, C. D. Satrya, Z. Y. Chen, D. Subero, Y. C. Chang, L. B. Wang, J. P. Pekola
2024
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Heat Bath in a Quantum Circuit
Jukka P. Pekola, Bayan Karimi
2024
Entropy
Microwave quantum diode
Rishabh Upadhyay, Dmitry S. Golubev, Yu Cheng Chang, George Thomas, Andrew Guthrie, Joonas T. Peltonen, Jukka P. Pekola
2024
Nature Communications
Lee-Yang theory of Bose-Einstein condensation
Fredrik Brange, Tuomas Pyhäranta, Eppu Heinonen, Kay Brandner, Christian Flindt
2023
Physical Review A
Quantum Simulation of Dissipative Collective Effects on Noisy Quantum Computers
Marco Cattaneo, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Guillermo García-Pérez, Roberta Zambrini, Sabrina Maniscalco
2023
PRX Quantum
Self-consistent quantum measurement tomography based on semidefinite programming
Marco Cattaneo, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Keijo Korhonen, Elsi Mari Borrelli, Guillermo García-Pérez, Zoltán Zimborás, Daniel Cavalcanti
2023
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
Quantum Stirling heat engine operating in finite time
Debmalya Das, George Thomas, Andrew N. Jordan
2023
Physical Review A
Thermodynamic geometry of ideal quantum gases : a general framework and a geometric picture of BEC-enhanced heat engines
Joshua Eglinton, Tuomas Pyhäranta, Keiji Saito, Kay Brandner
2023
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