Quantum Coulomb Drag for Cooper Pairs
摘要
We demonstrate that the system of two connected in series resistively shunted Josephson nanojunctions may exhibit a novel quantum Coulomb drag effect mediated by cotunneling of Cooper pairs. In the Coulomb blockade regime, one of the junctions can develop a non-vanishing electric current while an external voltage bias is applied to another one. This phenomenon results from a non-trivial interplay between macroscopic quantum coherence, dissipation, and electron–electron interactions and can be directly tested in future experiments.