Quantum phase pumping

Authors
Citation
F. Zhou, Quantum phase pumping, INT J MOD B, 15(2), 2001, pp. 117-124
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B
ISSN journal
02179792 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
117 - 124
Database
ISI
SICI code
0217-9792(20010120)15:2<117:QPP>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
In this Letter we consider the adiabatic charge transport through a normal mesoscopic sample sandwiched by superconductors without modulation of local chemical potentials. The deformation of coherent quasiparticles in the nor mal metal in the presence of periodically changing phases in the supercondu ctors leads to a charge transport. Both the magnitude and the phase depende nce of the charge transferred per period through the sample strongly depend on temperature.