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Detection of geometric phases in superconducting nanocircuits

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  • Giuseppe Falci

    (Università di Catania
    Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Unità di Catania e Palermo)

  • Rosario Fazio

    (Università di Catania
    Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Unità di Catania e Palermo)

  • G. Massimo Palma

    (Università di Palermo
    Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Unità di Catania e Palermo)

  • Jens Siewert

    (Università di Catania
    Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Unità di Catania e Palermo)

  • Vlatko Vedral

    (Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Abstract

When a quantum-mechanical system undergoes an adiabatic cyclic evolution, it acquires a geometrical phase factor1 in addition to the dynamical one; this effect has been demonstrated in a variety of microscopic systems2. Advances in nanotechnology should enable the laws of quantum dynamics to be tested at the macroscopic level3, by providing controllable artificial two-level systems (for example, in quantum dots4 and superconducting devices5,6). Here we propose an experimental method to detect geometric phases in a superconducting device. The setup is a Josephson junction nanocircuit consisting of a superconducting electron box. We discuss how interferometry based on geometrical phases may be realized, and show how the effect may be applied to the design of gates for quantum computation.

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  • Giuseppe Falci & Rosario Fazio & G. Massimo Palma & Jens Siewert & Vlatko Vedral, 2000. "Detection of geometric phases in superconducting nanocircuits," Nature, Nature, vol. 407(6802), pages 355-358, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:407:y:2000:i:6802:d:10.1038_35030052
    DOI: 10.1038/35030052
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