Thouless pumping and topology

R Citro, M Aidelsburger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum
systems and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally …

Nonequilibrium boundary-driven quantum systems: Models, methods, and properties

GT Landi, D Poletti, G Schaller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

A Thouless quantum pump with ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical superlattice

M Lohse, C Schweizer, O Zilberberg, M Aidelsburger… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Topological charge pumping enables the transport of charge through an adiabatic cyclic
evolution of the underlying Hamiltonian. In contrast to classical transport, the transported …

Coherent control of single electrons: a review of current progress

C Bäuerle, DC Glattli, T Meunier, F Portier… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we review the present state of the art of the control of propagating quantum
states at the single-electron level and its potential application to quantum information …

Quantized current steps due to the ac coherent quantum phase-slip effect

RS Shaikhaidarov, KH Kim, JW Dunstan, IV Antonov… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ac Josephson effect predicted in 1962 and observed experimentally in 1963 as
quantized 'voltage steps'(the Shapiro steps) from photon-assisted tunnelling of Cooper pairs …

Roadmap on quantum nanotechnologies

A Laucht, F Hohls, N Ubbelohde… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum phenomena are typically observable at length and time scales smaller than those
of our everyday experience, often involving individual particles or excitations. The past few …

Millisecond charge-parity fluctuations and induced decoherence in a superconducting transmon qubit

D Ristè, CC Bultink, MJ Tiggelman… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The tunnelling of quasiparticles across Josephson junctions in superconducting quantum
circuits is an intrinsic decoherence mechanism for qubit degrees of freedom. Understanding …

Topological pumping in a Floquet-Bloch band

J Minguzzi, Z Zhu, K Sandholzer, AS Walter… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Constructing new topological materials is of vital interest for the development of robust
quantum applications. However, engineering such materials often causes technological …

Electron quantum optics in ballistic chiral conductors

E Bocquillon, V Freulon, FD Parmentier… - Annalen der …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The edge channels of the quantum Hall effect provide one dimensional chiral and ballistic
wires along which electrons can be guided in an optics‐like setup. Electronic propagation …

Evidence of dual Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction array

N Crescini, S Cailleaux, W Guichard, C Naud… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The modern primary voltage standard is based on the ac Josephson effect and the ensuing
Shapiro steps, where a microwave tone applied to a Josephson junction yields a constant …