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Stationary Josephson effect in a short multi-terminal junction

Superconductivity 2013-01-16 v2

Abstract

We study the dc Josephson effect and the density of states in a multiterminal structure of cross-type geometry which consists of four superconducting electrodes connected by one-dimensional normal or ferromagnetic wires. We find that the Josephson current IJzI_{Jz} has a sinusoidal dependence on the phase difference ϕz\phi_z between the superconductors in the horizontal wire with a critical current IcI_c that can be varied by changing the phase difference ϕy\phi_y between the superconductors in the vertical wire. The period of the function IJz(ϕz)I_{Jz}(\phi_z) depends on the ratio of the interface resistances RSn,z/RSn,yR_{Sn,z}/R_{Sn,y} being equal to 2π2\pi if this ratio is small and equal to 4π4\pi in the opposite limit. We also calculate the amplitudes of both the singlet and the odd-frequency triplet component in the system under consideration. The triplet component amplitude may be significantly larger than the amplitude of the singlet component.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6235,
  title  = {Stationary Josephson effect in a short multi-terminal junction},
  author = {Sebastian Mai and Ervand Kandelaki and Anatoly Volkov and Konstantin Efetov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6235},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures

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