Fast and accurate Cooper pair pump

We propose a method to perform accurate and fast charge pumping in superconducting nanocircuits. Combining topological properties and quantum control techniques based on shortcuts to adiabaticity, we show that it is theoretically possible to achieve perfectly quantized charge pumping at any finite-speed driving. Model-specific errors may still arise due the difficulty of implementing the exact control. We thus assess this and other practical issues in a specific system comprised of three Josephson junctions. Using realistic system parameters, we show that our scheme can improve the pumping accuracy of this device by various orders of magnitude. Possible metrological perspectives are discussed.

Keywords

SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTOR, QUANTIZED CURRENT

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.100.235428

Citation

Erdman , P A , Taddei , F , Peltonen , J T , Fazio , R & Pekola , J P 2019 , ' Fast and accurate Cooper pair pump ' , Physical Review B , vol. 100 , no. 23 , 235428 , pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.235428

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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202001171601

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