Coulomb Blockade of Shot Noise
ORAL
Abstract
We observe the suppression of the finite frequency shot-noise produced by a voltage biased tunnel junction due to its interaction with a single electromagnetic mode of high impedance. The junction is embedded in a superconducting lambda/4 resonator containing a dense SQUID array yielding a resonator characteristic impedance in the kOhm range and a resonant frequency tunable in the 4-6 GHz range. Such high impedance gives rise to a sizeable Coulomb blockade on the tunnel junction (about 30{\%} reduction in the differential conductance) and allows an efficient measurement of the spectral density of the current fluctuations at the resonator frequency. The observed blockade of shot-noise is found in agreement with an extension of the dynamical Coulomb blockade theory.
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