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Energy dependence of current noise in superconducting/normal metal junctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Interference of electronic waves undergoing Andreev reflection in diffusive conductors determines the energy profile of the conductance on the scale of the Thouless energy. A similar dependence exists in the current noise, but its behavior is known only in few limiting cases. We consider a metallic diffusive wire connected to a superconducting reservoir through an interface characterized by an arbitrary distribution of channel transparencies. Within the quasiclassical theory for current fluctuations we provide a general expression for the energy dependence of the current noise.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310418,
  title  = {Energy dependence of current noise in superconducting/normal metal junctions},
  author = {M. Houzet and F. Pistolesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310418},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 1 Figure