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Mechanical Cooper pair transportation as a source of long distance superconducting phase coherence

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

Transportation of Cooper-pairs by a movable single Cooper-pair-box placed between two remote superconductors is shown to establish coherent coupling between them. This coupling is due to entanglement of the movable box with the leads and is manifested in the supression of quantum fluctuations of the relative phase of the order parameters of the leads. It can be probed by attaching a high resistance Josephson junction between the leads and measuring the current through this junction. The current is suppressed with increasing temperature.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0106597,
  title  = {Mechanical Cooper pair transportation as a source of long distance superconducting phase coherence},
  author = {A. Isacsson and L. Y. Gorelik and R. I. Shekhter and Y. M. Galperin and M. Jonson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0106597},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX; Updated version, typos corrected