Non-Abelian holonomies, charge pumping, and quantum computation with Josephson junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Faoro, Lara ^a   Siewert, Jens ^b   Fazio, Rosario ^c  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTERFEROMETRY; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FLUX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CHARGE PUMPING; JOSEPHSON NETWORK; NON-ABELIAN HOLONOMIES; QUANTUM COMPUTATION; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOCIRCUITS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037449872     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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