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Fermi liquid approach for superconducting Kondo problems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-11-20 v2

Abstract

We present a Fermi liquid approach to superconducting Kondo problems applicable when the Kondo temperature is large compared to the superconducting gap. To illustrate the theory, we study the current-phase relation and the Andreev level spectrum for an Anderson impurity between two ss-wave superconductors. In the particle-hole symmetric Kondo limit, we find a 4π4\pi periodic Andreev spectrum. The 4π4\pi periodicity persists under a small voltage bias which however causes an asymmetric distortion of Andreev levels. The latter distinguishes the present 4π4\pi effect from the one in topological Majorana junctions.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06892,
  title  = {Fermi liquid approach for superconducting Kondo problems},
  author = {A. Zazunov and S. Plugge and R. Egger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06892},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, replaced with published version (minor changes)

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