Hugues POTHIER

Laboratory: Service de physique de l'État condensé (SPEC)
CEA

Phone: 33 1 69 08 55 29
Email: hugues.pothier@cea.fr
Personal website

  • Research topics: Mesoscopic superconductivity, Josephson effect, Quantum transport
  • Research areas: Quantum electrical circuits, quantum and topological matter
  • Key words: Superconductivity, Qubits, Josephson effect, Andreev states
     

Important publications

  • Spin-Orbit splitting of Andreev states revealed by microwave spectroscopy, L. Tosi, C. Metzger, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, Sunghun Park, A. Levy Yeyati, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, Phys. Rev. X 9 011010 (2019). See arXiv:1810.0259
  • Conduction Channels of an InAs-Al nanowire Josephson weak link M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, J. Nygård, C. M. Marcus, P. Krogstrup, New J. Phys. 19, 092002 (2017). See arxiv:1706.09150
  • Coherent manipulation of Andreev states in superconducting atomic contacts C. Janvier, L. Tosi, L. Bretheau, Ç. Ö. Girit, M. Stern, P. Bertet, P. Joyez, D. Vion, D. Esteve, M. F. Goffman, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, Science 349, 1199 (2015)
  • Supercurrent Spectroscopy of Andreev States L. Bretheau, Ç. Girit, C. Urbina, D. Esteve, H. Pothier, Phys. Rev. X 3, 041034 (2013). arXiv 1311.3540.
  • Exciting Andreev pairs in a superconducting atomic contact, L. Bretheau, Ç. Girit, H. Pothier, D. Esteve, C. Urbina, Nature 499, 312 (2013).
  • Evidence for long-lived quasiparticles trapped in superconducting contacts M. Zgirski, L. Bretheau, Q. Le Masne, H. Pothier, D. Esteve and C. Urbina, arXiv:1105.5039 (contains Supplemental Material), PRL 106, 257003 (2011).
  • Measurement of the Current-Phase Relation of Superconducting Atomic Contacts M. L. Della Rocca, M. Chauvin, B. Huard, H. Pothier, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 127005 (2007)
  • Effect of magnetic impurities on energy exchange between electrons B. Huard, A. Anthore, Norman O. Birge, H. Pothier, and D. Esteve. Phys. Rev Lett, 95, 036802 (2005)
  • Density of States in a Superconductor Carrying a Supercurrent A. Anthore, F. Pierre, H. Pothier, and D. Esteve, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 076806 (2003)
  • Manipulating the quantum state of an electrical circuit D. Vion, A. Aassime, A. Cottet, P. Joyez, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, D. Esteve, and M.H.Devoret, Science 296 (2002), p. 286-9
  • Energy distribution function of quasiparticles in mesoscopic wires H. Pothier, S. Gueron, Norman O. Birge, D. Esteve, M.H. Devoret, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3490 (1997)