Department of Applied Physics

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.
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Jukka Pekola

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

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PICO website

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

Bolometric detection of Josephson radiation

Bayan Karimi, Gorm Ole Steffensen, Andrew P. Higginbotham, Charles M. Marcus, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Jukka P. Pekola 2024 Nature Nanotechnology

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

Estimating Molecular Thermal Averages with the Quantum Equation of Motion and Informationally Complete Measurements

Daniele Morrone, N. Walter Talarico, Marco Cattaneo, Matteo A.C. Rossi 2024 Entropy

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
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
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