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Time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism for superconducting junctions at arbitrary temperatures

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-04-15 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We discuss an extension of our earlier work on the time-dependent Landauer--B\"uttiker formalism for noninteracting electronic transport. The formalism can without complication be extended to superconducting central regions since the Green's functions in the Nambu representation satisfy the same equations of motion which, in turn, leads to the same closed expression for the equal-time lesser Green's function, i.e., for the time-dependent reduced one-particle density matrix. We further write the finite-temperature frequency integrals in terms of known special functions thereby considerably speeding up the computation. Numerical simulations in simple normal metal -- superconductor -- normal metal junctions are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00109,
  title  = {Time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism for superconducting junctions at arbitrary temperatures},
  author = {Riku Tuovinen and Robert van Leeuwen and Enrico Perfetto and Gianluca Stefanucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00109},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 8 figures

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