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Dipartimento di Fisica - Aula 603
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Seminar
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Cooper quartets represent exotic fermion aggregates describing
correlated matter at the basis of charge-$4e$ superconductivity and
offer a platform for
studying four-body interactions, of interest for topologically protected
quantum computing and strongly correlated matter. Focusing on
solid-state systems,
we show how to quantum design Cooper quartets in a double-dot system
coupled to ordinary superconducting leads through the introduction of an
attractive
interdot interaction. A fundamentally novel, maximally correlated
double-dot ground state, in the form of a superposition of vacuum
$|0\rangle$ and four-electron
state $|4e\rangle$, emerges as a narrow resonance in a many-body quartet
correlator that is accompanied by negligible pair correlations. The
results open
the way to the exploration of interaction effects in hybrid
superconducting devices and novel correlated states of matter in a
quantum solid-state lab.