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
PICO website
Research group members

Latest publications
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
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
New Journal of Physics
Experimentally accessible nonseparability criteria for multipartite-entanglement-structure detection
Guillermo García-Pérez, Oskari Kerppo, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Sabrina Maniscalco
2023
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
Link Prediction with Continuous-Time Classical and Quantum Walks
Mark Goldsmith, Harto Saarinen, Guillermo García-Pérez, Joonas Malmi, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Sabrina Maniscalco
2023
Entropy
Cooper pair splitting controlled by a temperature gradient
Dmitry S. Golubev, Andrei D. Zaikin
2023
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
Fluctuations and stability of a fast-driven Otto cycle
Ana Laura Gramajo, Elisabetta Paladino, Jukka Pekola, Rosario Fazio
2023
Physical Review B
Calorimetry of a phase slip in a Josephson junction
E. Gümüş, D. Majidi, D. Nikolić, P. Raif, B. Karimi, J. T. Peltonen, E. Scheer, J. P. Pekola, H. Courtois, W. Belzig, C. B. Winkelmann
2023
Nature Physics
A qubit tames its environment
Bayan Karimi, Jukka P. Pekola
2023
Nature Physics
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