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تسجيل مستخدم جديدFine energy splitting of overlapping Andreev bound states in multi-terminal superconducting nanostructures
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The recent proposals of experiments with single Andreev bound states make relevant a detailed analysis of these states in multi-terminal superconducting nanostructures. We evaluate the energy splitting of degenerate Andreev bound states, that overlap in a superconducting lead, and find that the splitting is reduced in comparison with their energy by a small factor $sqrt{R G_Q}$, $R G_Q$ being the dimensionless resistance of the overlap region in the normal state. This permits quantum manipulation of the quasiparticles in these states. We provide a simple scheme of such manipulation.
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