Strong Reduction of Quasiparticle Fluctuations in a Superconductor due to Decoupling of the Quasiparticle Number and Lifetime
arXiv:2103.04777 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L180506
Abstract
We measure temperature dependent quasiparticle fluctuations in a small Al volume, embedded in a NbTiN superconducting microwave resonator. The resonator design allows for read-out close to equilibrium. By placing the Al film on a membrane, we enhance the fluctuation level and separate quasiparticle from phonon effects. When lowering the temperature, the recombination time saturates and the fluctuation level reduces a factor 100. From this we deduce that the number of free quasiparticles is still thermal. Therefore, the theoretical, inverse relation between quasiparticle number and recombination time is invalid in this experiment. This is consistent with quasiparticle trapping, where on-trap recombination limits the observed quasiparticle lifetime.
Main text: 5 pages, 3 figures; Supplemental material: 11 pages, 8 figures
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