Tailoring Josephson coupling through superconductivity-induced nonequilibrium
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2008-07-12 v1 Superconductivity
Abstract
The distinctive quasiparticle distribution existing under nonequilibrium in a superconductor-insulator-normal metal-insulator-superconductor (SINIS) mesoscopic line is proposed as a novel tool to control the supercurrent intensity in a long Josephson weak link. We present a description of this system in the framework of the diffusive-limit quasiclassical Green-function theory and take into account the effects of inelastic scattering with arbitrary strength. Supercurrent enhancement and suppression, including a marked transition to a -junction are striking features leading to a fully tunable structure.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311384,
title = {Tailoring Josephson coupling through superconductivity-induced nonequilibrium},
author = {F. Giazotto and T. T. Heikkila and F. Taddei and Rosario Fazio and J. P. Pekola and F. Beltram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311384},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures