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Transport properties of spin-triplet superconducting monolayer $MoS_2$

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

The quantum transport properties of graphene and monolayer MoS2MoS_2 superconductor heterostructures has been of considerable importance in the recent few years. Layered nature of molybdenum disulfide permits the superconducting correlation induction. Moreover, peculiar dynamical features of monolayer MoS2MoS_2, such as valence band spin-splitting in the nondegenerate KK and KK' valleys originated from strong spin-orbit coupling, and considerable direct band gap can make it potentially a useful material for electronics applications. Using the Dirac-like Hamiltonian of MoS2MoS_2 with taking into account the related mass asymmetry and topological contributions, we investigate the effect of spin-triplet pp-wave pairing symmetry on the superconducting excitations, resulting in Andreev reflection process and Andreev bound state in the corresponding normal-superconductor (NS) and superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) structures, respectively. We study how the resulting subgap conductance and Josephson current are affected by the particular symmetry of order parameter. The signature of pxp_x-wave symmetry is found to decline the subgap superconducting energy excitations and, consequently, slightly suppress the Andreev reflection in the case of pp-doped S region. The essential dynamical parameters λ\lambda and β\beta of MoS2MoS_2 have significant effect on the both tunneling conductance and Josephson current. Particularly, the considered pp-wave symmetry in the superconducting bound energies may feature the zero energy states at the interfaces. The critical current oscillations as a function of length of junction are obtained in the pp-doped S region.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02054,
  title  = {Transport properties of spin-triplet superconducting monolayer $MoS_2$},
  author = {Maryam Khezerlou and Hadi Goudarzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02054},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 15 figures