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Non-abelian superconducting pumps

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

Cooper pair pumping is a coherent process. We derive a general expression for the adiabatic pumped charge in superconducting nanocircuits in the presence of level degeneracy and relate it to non-Abelian holonomies of Wilczek and Zee. We discuss an experimental system where the non-Abelian structure of the adiabatic evolution manifests in the pumped charge.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702333,
  title  = {Non-abelian superconducting pumps},
  author = {Valentina Brosco and Rosario Fazio and F. W. J. Hekking and Alain Joye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702333},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures