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Effects of interface spin-orbit coupling on tunneling between normal metal and chiral p-wave superconductor

Superconductivity 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

We study the tunneling conductance of a clean normal metal/chiral p-wave superconductor junction using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism. It is shown that the spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type that is present near the interface causes the subgap conductance peaks associated with the Andreev surface bound states to shift to a nonzero bias. We also investigate the effect of the Fermi wavevector mismatch between the normal metal and the superconductor.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0370,
  title  = {Effects of interface spin-orbit coupling on tunneling between normal metal and chiral p-wave superconductor},
  author = {S. Wu and K. V. Samokhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0370},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures