Berry’s phase and a possible new topological current drive in certain weak link superconducting systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 4404-4407

  Gaitan, Frank ^a   Shenoy, Subodh R ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; QUANTUM THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

BERRY PHASE; DISSIPATIVE FORCE; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNUS FORCES; SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE DYNAMICS; VORTEX MOTION; WEAK LINK SYSTEMS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0030567592     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4404     Document Type: Article

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