TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.083
TI  - Thouless pumping in Josephson junction arrays
PY  - 2024/03/22
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.083
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SP  - 083
A1  - Athanasiou, Stavros
AU  - Nielsen, Ida Egholm
AU  - Wauters, Matteo M.
AU  - Burrello, Michele
AB  - Recent advancements in fabrication techniques have enabled unprecedented clean interfaces and gate tunability in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Inspired by these developments, we propose protocols to realize Thouless quantum pumping in electrically tunable Josephson junction arrays. We analyze, in particular, the implementation of the Rice-Mele and the Harper-Hofstadter pumping schemes, whose realization would validate these systems as flexible platforms for quantum simulations. We investigate numerically the long-time behavior of chains of controllable superconducting islands in the Coulomb-blockaded regime. Our findings provide new insights into the dynamics of periodically driven interacting systems and highlight the robustness of Thouless pumping with respect to boundary effects typical of superconducting circuits.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.083,
	title={{Thouless pumping in Josephson junction arrays}},
	author={Stavros Athanasiou and Ida Egholm Nielsen and Matteo M. Wauters and Michele Burrello},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={16},
	pages={083},
	year={2024},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.083},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.083},
}