Edge effects in the magnetic interference pattern of a ballistic SNS junction
Abstract
We investigate the Josephson critical current of a wide superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junction as a function of the magnetic flux threading it. Electronic trajectories reflected from the side edges alter the function as compared to the conventional Fraunhofer-type dependence. At weak magnetic fields, , the edge effect lifts zeros in and gradually shifts the minima of that function toward half-integer multiples of the flux quantum. At , the edge effect leads to an accelerated decay of the critical current with increasing . At larger fields, eventually, the system is expected to cross into a regime of "classical" mesoscopic fluctuations that is specific for wide ballistic SNS junctions with rough edges.
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@article{arxiv.1603.08567,
title = {Edge effects in the magnetic interference pattern of a ballistic SNS junction},
author = {Hendrik Meier and Vladimir I. Fal'ko and Leonid I. Glazman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08567},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages, 8 figures