Understanding Coulomb Staircase Properties

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The discussion focuses on understanding the properties of the "Coulomb staircase" in the context of a single Cooper pair box, specifically how to graph the average integer charge (n) as a function of gate charge (Ng). To achieve this, one must solve the Schrödinger equation using the provided Hamiltonian. Key resources include the graph linked from the CEA website and Tinkham's "Introduction to Superconductivity" for further theoretical background.

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I'm having trouble understanding the properties of the "coulomb staircase" using the average integer charge: <n> as a function of the gate charge. How would we go about getting this graph?

http://www-drecam.cea.fr/drecam/spec/Pres/Quantro/Qsite/projects/qip.htm

It will be the last graph under the headline: "single cooper pair box".

Thank you for your time.
 
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You have the Hamiltonian just to the right of the picture. In order to get the energy diagram as a function of Ng you need to solve the Schrödinger equation using this Hamiltonian.

You can find more information in e.g. Tinkhams "Introduction to Superconductivity".
 

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