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
Radio-Frequency Coulomb-Blockade Thermometry
Florian Blanchet, Yu Cheng Chang, Bayan Karimi, Joonas T. Peltonen, Jukka P. Pekola
2022
Physical Review Applied
Learning Feedback Control Strategies for Quantum Metrology
Alessio Fallani, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Dario Tamascelli, Marco G. Genoni
2022
PRX Quantum
Photonic heat transport in three terminal superconducting circuit
Azat Gubaydullin, George Thomas, Dmitry S. Golubev, Dmitrii Lvov, Joonas T. Peltonen, Jukka P. Pekola
2022
Nature Communications
Low Temperature Characteristics of the Metal–Superconductor NIS Tunneling Thermometer
Bayan Karimi, Yu Cheng Chang, Jukka P. Pekola
2022
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Optimization of the Cold-Electron Bolometer and a Quasiparticle Cascade Amplifier in the Voltage-Biased Mode
Leonid Kuzmin, Dmitry Golubev
2022
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
A superconductor free of quasiparticles for seconds
E. T. Mannila, P. Samuelsson, S. Simbierowicz, J. T. Peltonen, V. Vesterinen, L. Grönberg, J. Hassel, V. F. Maisi, J. P. Pekola
2022
Nature Physics
An electron turnstile for frequency-to-power conversion
Marco Marín-Suárez, Joonas T. Peltonen, Dmitry S. Golubev, Jukka P. Pekola
2022
Nature Nanotechnology
Ultrasensitive Calorimetric Detection of Single Photons from Qubit Decay
Jukka P. Pekola, Bayan Karimi
2022
Physical Review X
Correlation-enabled energy exchange in quantum systems without external driving
T. Pyhäranta, S. Alipour, A. T. Rezakhani, T. Ala-Nissila
2022
Physical Review A
Witnessing objectivity on a quantum computer
Dario A. Chisholm, Guillermo García-Pérez, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Sabrina Maniscalco, G. Massimo Palma
2022
Quantum Science and Technology