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Single Cooper pair tunneling induced by non-classical microwaves

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

A mesoscopic Josephson junction interacting with a mode of non-classical microwaves with frequency ω\omega is considered. Squeezing of the electromagnetic field drastically affects the dynamics of Cooper tunneling. In particular, Bloch steps can be observed even when the microwaves are in the squeezed vacuum state with {\em zero} average amplitude of the field E(t)=0\langle E(t) \rangle = 0. The interval between these steps is double in size in comparison to the conventional Bloch steps.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9601011,
  title  = {Single Cooper pair tunneling induced by non-classical microwaves},
  author = {A. A. Odintsov and A. Vourdas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9601011},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures are available upon request to: odintsov@duttntn.tn.tudelft.nl

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