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Josephson effect in mesoscopic graphene strips with finite width

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-25 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study Josephson effect in a ballistic graphene strip of length LL smaller than the superconducting coherence length and arbitrary width WW. We find that the dependence of the critical supercurrent IcI_{c} on WW is drastically different for different types of the edges. For \textit{smooth} and \textit{armchair} edges at low concentration of the carriers IcI_{c} decreases monotonically with decreasing W/LW/L and tends to a constant minimum for a narrow strip W/L1W/L\lesssim1. The minimum supercurrent is zero for smooth edges but has a finite value eΔ0/e\Delta_{0}/\hbar for the armchair edges. At higher concentration of the carriers, in addition to this overall monotonic variation, the critical current undergoes a series of peaks with varying WW. On the other hand in a strip with \textit{zigzag} edges the supercurrent is half-integer quantized to (n+1/2)4eΔ0/(n+1/2)4e\Delta_{0}/\hbar, showing a step-wise variation with WW.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611577,
  title  = {Josephson effect in mesoscopic graphene strips with finite width},
  author = {Ali G. Moghaddam and Malek Zareyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611577},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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