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Dissipative charge transport in diffusive superconducting double-barrier junctions
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- We solve the coherent multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) problem and calculate current-voltage characteristics (IVCs) for Josephson SINIS junctions, where S are local-equilibrium superconducting reservoirs, I denotes tunnel barriers, and N is a short diffusive normal wire, the length of which is much smaller than the coherence length, and the resistance is much smaller than the resistance of the tunnel barriers. The charge transport regime in such junctions qualitatively depends on a characteristic value \gamma = \Delta \tau_d of relative phase shifts between the electrons and retro-reflected holes accumulated during the dwell time \tau_d. In the limit of small electron-hole dephasing \gamma << 1, our solution recovers a known formula for a short mesoscopic connector extended to the MAR regime. At large dephasing, the subharmonic gap structure in the IVC scales with 1/ \gamma, which thus plays the role of an effective tunneling parameter. In this limit, the even gap subharmonics are resonantly enhanced, and the IVC exhibits portions with negative differential resistance.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
- Subjects :
- Josephson effect
Superconductivity
Physics
Mesoscopic physics
Condensed matter physics
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Dephasing
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
FOS: Physical sciences
Electron
Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Coherence length
Andreev reflection
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Quantum tunnelling
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....26d2d2f58e3af965138ece8fccdc184c