Geometric Landau-Zener interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Gasparinetti, S ^a   Solinas, P ^a   Pekola, J P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP; DECOHERENCE; GEOMETRIC PHASIS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LANDAU-ZENER; LANDAU-ZENER TRANSITIONS; PHASE BIAS; PUMPING FREQUENCY; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 81055149747     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.207002     Document Type: Article

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