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
The microwave phase locking in Bloch transistor
Ilya Antonov, Rais S. Shaikhaidarov, Kyung Ho Kim, Dmitry Golubev, Sven Linzen, Evgeni V. Il’ichev, Vladimir N. Antonov, Oleg V. Astafiev
2026
Nature Communications
Roadmap on quantum thermodynamics
Steve Campbell, Irene D'amico, Mario A. Ciampini, Janet Anders, Natalia Ares, Simone Artini, Alexia Auffeves, Lindsay Bassman Oftelie, Laetitia P. Bettmann, Marcus V. S. Bonanca, Thomas Busch, Michele Campisi, Moallison F. Cavalcante, Luis A. Correa, Eloisa Cuestas, Ceren B. Dag, Salambo Dago, Sebastian Deffner, Adolfo Del Campo, Andreas Deutschmann-Olek, Sandro Donadi, Emery Doucet, Cyril Elouard, Klaus Ensslin, Paul Erker, Nicole Fabbri, Federico Fedele, Guilherme Fiusa, Thomas Fogarty, Joshua Folk, Giacomo Guarnieri, Abhaya S. Hegde, Santiago Hernandez-Gomez, Chang-Kang Hu, Fernando Iemini, Bayan Karimi, Nikolai Kiesel, Gabriel T. Landi, Sergei Lemziakov, Gabriele Lo Monaco, Eric Lutz, Dmitrii Lvov, Olivier Maillet, Mohammad Mehboudi, Taysa M. Mendonca, Harry J. D. Miller, Andrew K. Mitchell, Mark T. Mitchison, Victor Mukherjee, Mauro Paternostro, Jukka Pekola, Marti Perarnau-Llobet, Ulrich Poschinger, Alberto Rolandi, Dario Rosa, Rafael Sanchez, Alan C. Santos, Roberto S. Sarthour, Eran Sela, Andrea Solfanelli, Alexandre M. Souza, Janine Splettstoesser, Dian Tan, Ludovico Tesser, Tan Van Vu, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Krissia Zawadzki
2026
Quantum Science and Technology
Thermometry based on a superconducting qubit
Dmitrii Lvov
2026
Preface: 2025 Physics Nobel Prize
Jukka Pekola, Neil Sullivan
2026
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Numerical implementation of the partial secular approximation and unified master equation in structured open quantum systems
Antti Vaaranta, Marco Cattaneo
2026
Computer Physics Communications
Nanoscale thickness Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum light generation
Susobhan Das, Md Gius Uddin, Diao Li, Yadong Wang, Yunyun Dai, Juha Toivonen, Hao Hong, Kaihui Liu, Zhipei Sun
2025
Light: Science & Applications
Thermometry based on a superconducting qubit
D. S. Lvov, S. A. Lemziakov, E. Ankerhold, J. T. Peltonen, J. P. Pekola
2025
Physical Review Applied
Thermal rectification in a qubit-resonator system
L. Magazzù, E. Paladino, J. P. Pekola, M. Grifoni
2025
Physical Review Research
Probing fast quantum circuit refrigeration in the quantum regime
Shuji Nakamura, Teruaki Yoshioka, Sergei Lemziakov, Dmitrii Lvov, Hiroto Mukai, Akiyoshi Tomonaga, Shintaro Takada, Yuma Okazaki, Nobu Hisa Kaneko, Jukka Pekola, Jaw Shen Tsai
2025
Physical Review Applied
High-responsivity InSe/TaSe2 photodetectors integrated on low-loss silicon nitride waveguides
Maaz Ahmed Qureshi, Fooqia Khalid, Md Gius Uddin, Abde Mayeen Shafi, Isaac Doughan, Janvit Tippinit, Faisal Ahmed, Xiaoqi Cui, Matthieu Roussey, Harri Lipsanen, Zhipei Sun, Markku Kuittinen
2025
Nanoscale Advances