Abstract
The charge on a superconducting island coupled to a superconducting electrode by a Josephson junction is determined in the region where the gap energy and the single-electron charging energy of the island are of comparable magnitude. The Coulomb staircase describing the incremental charging of the island in response to a biasing voltage is studied. The rounding of the staircase corners due to thermal and quantum fluctuations is found to depend on the parity of the island charge in the adjacent tread. This should allow for an experimental disentanglement of the effects of quantum charge fluctuations from thermal fluctuations.
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