Josephson effect in mesoscopic graphene strips with finite width
Abstract
We study Josephson effect in a ballistic graphene strip of length smaller than the superconducting coherence length and arbitrary width . We find that the dependence of the critical supercurrent on is drastically different for different types of the edges. For \textit{smooth} and \textit{armchair} edges at low concentration of the carriers decreases monotonically with decreasing and tends to a constant minimum for a narrow strip . The minimum supercurrent is zero for smooth edges but has a finite value 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 . On the other hand in a strip with \textit{zigzag} edges the supercurrent is half-integer quantized to , showing a step-wise variation with .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures