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Anomalous superconducting proximity effect and coherent charge transport in semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit interaction

Superconductivity 2016-08-03 v3

Abstract

We present a microscopic theory of the superconducting proximity effect in a semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit interaction (NSON_{SO}) in an external magnetic field. We demonstrate that an effective 1D Hamiltonian which describes induced superconductivity in NSON_{SO} in contact with a usual ss-wave superconductor possesses not only spin-singlet induced superconducting order parameter term, as commonly adopted, but spin triplet order parameter term also. Using this new effective Hamiltonian we confirm previous results for a normal current across contacts of NSON_{SO} with a normal metal and for a Josephson current with the same NSON_{SO} with induced superconductivity, obtained previously in the framework of the phenomenological Hamiltonian without spin-triplet terms. However, a calculated current-phase relation across the transparent contact between NSON_{SO} with induced superconductivity in magnetic field and usual ss-wave superconductor differs significantly from previous results. We suggest the experiment which can confirm our theoretical predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07087,
  title  = {Anomalous superconducting proximity effect and coherent charge transport in semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit interaction},
  author = {A. V. Burmistrova and I. A. Devyatov and I. E. Batov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07087},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures