Superconducting Quantum Refrigerator: Breaking and Rejoining Cooper Pairs with Magnetic Field Cycles

Manikandan, Sreenath K.; Giazotto, Francesco; Jordan, Andrew N.

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.11.054034

Superconducting Quantum Refrigerator: Breaking and Rejoining Cooper Pairs with Magnetic Field Cycles

Journal Article · Mon May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review Applied

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.11.054034· OSTI ID:1612773

Manikandan, Sreenath K. ^[1]; Giazotto, Francesco ^[2]; Jordan, Andrew N. ^[3]

Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States); DOE/OSTI
NEST, Pisa (Italy)
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States); Chapman Univ., Orange, CA (United States)

We propose a solid-state refrigeration technique based on repeated adiabatic magnetization and demagnetization cycles of a superconductor, which acts as the working substance. The gradual cooling down of a substrate (normal metal) in contact with the working substance is demonstrated for different initial temperatures of the substrate. Excess heat is given to a hot large-gap superconductor. The on-chip refrigerator works in a cyclic manner because of an effective thermal switching mechanism: heat transport between N-N versus N-S junctions is asymmetric because of the appearance of the energy gap. Furthermore, this switch permits selective cooling of the metal. We find that this refrigeration technique can cool down a 0.3 cm³ block of Cu by almost 2 orders of magnitude starting from 200 mK, and down to about 1 mK starting from the base temperature of a dilution fridge (10 mK). The corresponding cooling power at 200 and 10 mK for a 1 × 1 cm² interface are 25 and 0.06 nW respectively, which scales with the area of the interface.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017890

OSTI ID:: 1612773

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1512341
OSTI ID: 2222816

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Journal Name: Physical Review Applied Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 11; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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