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Ballistic graphene Josephson junctions from the short to the long regime

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-12-07 v3

Abstract

We investigate the critical current, ICI_C, of ballistic Josephson junctions made of encapsulated graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures. We observe a crossover from the short to the long junction regimes as the length of the device increases. In long ballistic junctions, ISI_S is found to scale as exp(kbT/δE)\propto \exp(-k_bT/\delta E). The extracted energies δE\delta E are independent of the carrier density and proportional to the level spacing of the ballistic cavity, as determined from Fabry-Perot oscillations of the junction normal resistance. As T0T\rightarrow 0 the critical current of a long (or short) junction saturates at a level determined by the product of δE\delta E (or Δ\Delta) and the number of the junction's transversal modes.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07320,
  title  = {Ballistic graphene Josephson junctions from the short to the long regime},
  author = {I. V. Borzenets and F. Amet and C. T. Ke and A. W. Draelos and M. T. Wei and A. Seredinski and K. Watanabe and T. Taniguchi and Y. Bomze and M. Yamamoto and S. Tarucha and G Finkelstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07320},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Main text: 4 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary: 2 pages, 4 figures