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Resonant tunneling through Andreev levels

Superconductivity 2009-10-31 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We use a semiclassical approach for analysing the tunneling transport through a normal conductor in contact with superconducting mirrors. Our analysis of the electron-hole propagation along semiclassical trajectories shows that resonant transmission through Andreev levels is possible resulting in an excess, low-energy quasiparticle contribution to the conductance. The excess conductance oscillates with the phase difference between the superconductors having maxima at odd multiples of π\pi for temperatures much below the Thouless temperature

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811212,
  title  = {Resonant tunneling through Andreev levels},
  author = {A. Kadigrobov and L. Y. Gorelik and R. I. Shekhter and M. Jonson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811212},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures; submitted to a special volume of Superlattices and Microstructures on Mesoscopic Superconductivity