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Commensurability effects in Andreev antidot billiards

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

An Andreev billiard was realized in an array of niobium filled antidots in a high-mobility InAs/AlGaSb heterostructure. Below the critical temperature T_C of the Nb dots we observe a strong reduction of the resistance around B=0 and a suppression of the commensurability peaks, which are usually found in antidot lattices. Both effects can be explained in a classical Kubo approach by considering the trajectories of charge carriers in the semiconductor, when Andreev reflection at the semiconductor-superconductor interface is included. For perfect Andreev reflection, we expect a complete suppression of the commensurability features, even though motion at finite B is chaotic.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107165,
  title  = {Commensurability effects in Andreev antidot billiards},
  author = {J. Eroms and M. Tolkiehn and D. Weiss and U. Rössler and J. De Boeck and G. Borghs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107165},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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