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Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers
Proximity induced quantum coherence of electrons in multi-terminal voltage-driven hybrid normal-superconducting nanostructures may result in a non-trivial interplay between topology-dependent Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects. We elucidate a trade-off between stimulation of the voltage-dependent J...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30718582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37653-w |
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author | Dolgirev, Pavel E. Kalenkov, Mikhail S. Zaikin, Andrei D. |
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description | Proximity induced quantum coherence of electrons in multi-terminal voltage-driven hybrid normal-superconducting nanostructures may result in a non-trivial interplay between topology-dependent Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects. We elucidate a trade-off between stimulation of the voltage-dependent Josephson current due to non-equilibrium effects and quantum dephasing of quasiparticles causing reduction of both Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm currents. We also predict phase-shifted quantum coherent oscillations of the induced electrostatic potential as a function of the externally applied magnetic flux. Our results may be employed for engineering superconducting nanocircuits with controlled quantum properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-63619162019-02-06 Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers Dolgirev, Pavel E. Kalenkov, Mikhail S. Zaikin, Andrei D. Sci Rep Article Proximity induced quantum coherence of electrons in multi-terminal voltage-driven hybrid normal-superconducting nanostructures may result in a non-trivial interplay between topology-dependent Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects. We elucidate a trade-off between stimulation of the voltage-dependent Josephson current due to non-equilibrium effects and quantum dephasing of quasiparticles causing reduction of both Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm currents. We also predict phase-shifted quantum coherent oscillations of the induced electrostatic potential as a function of the externally applied magnetic flux. Our results may be employed for engineering superconducting nanocircuits with controlled quantum properties. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6361916/ /pubmed/30718582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37653-w Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Dolgirev, Pavel E. Kalenkov, Mikhail S. Zaikin, Andrei D. Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title | Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title_full | Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title_fullStr | Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title_full_unstemmed | Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title_short | Interplay between Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects in Andreev interferometers |
title_sort | interplay between josephson and aharonov-bohm effects in andreev interferometers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30718582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37653-w |
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