Quantum Coulomb Drag Mediated by Cotunneling of Fluxons and Cooper Pairs

We predict two novel quantum drag effects which can occur in macroscopically quantum coherent Josephson circuits. We demonstrate that biasing one resistively shunted Josephson junction by an external current one can induce a nonzero voltage drop across another such junction capacitively coupled to the first one. This quantum Coulomb drag is caused by cotunneling of magnetic flux quanta across both junctions which remain in the "superconducting" regime. Likewise, Cooper pair cotunneling across a pair of connected in series Josephson junctions in the "insulating" regime is responsible for another-dual-quantum Coulomb drag effect.

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-02-24
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.086001
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Quantum and electron transport phenomena
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Quantum Coulomb Drag Mediated by Cotunneling of Fluxons and Cooper Pairs

Andrew G. Semenov, Alex Latyshev, Andrei D. Zaikin
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Abstract

We predict two novel quantum drag effects which can occur in macroscopically quantum coherent Josephson circuits. We demonstrate that biasing one resistively shunted Josephson junction by an external current one can induce a nonzero voltage drop across another such junction capacitively coupled to the first one. This quantum Coulomb drag is caused by cotunneling of magnetic flux quanta across both junctions which remain in the "superconducting" regime. Likewise, Cooper pair cotunneling across a pair of connected in series Josephson junctions in the "insulating" regime is responsible for another-dual-quantum Coulomb drag effect.

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University of Geneva (CH), National Research University Higher School of Economics (RU), P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (RU)
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