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Decoherence in a Cooper pair shuttle

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

We examine decoherence effects in the Josephson current of a Cooper pair shuttle. Dephasing due to gate voltage fluctuations can either suppress or enhance the critical current and also change its sign. The current noise spectrum displays a peak at the Josephson coupling energy and shows a phase dependence.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212414,
  title  = {Decoherence in a Cooper pair shuttle},
  author = {Alessandro Romito and Francesco Plastina and Rosario Fazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212414},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures; v3 (published version): major changes, added refernces