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Tunable pseudogaps due to non-local coherent transport in voltage-biased three-terminal Josephson junctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-06-01 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We investigate the proximity effect in junctions between N=3N=3 superconductors under commensurate voltage bias. The bias is chosen to highlight the role of transport processes that exchange multiple Cooper pairs coherently between more than two superconductors. Such non-local processes can be studied in the dc response, where local transport processes do not contribute. We focus on the proximity-induced normal density of states that we investigate in a wide parameter space. We reveal the presence of deep and highly tunable pseudogaps and other rich structures. These are due to a static proximity effect that is absent for N=2N=2 and is sensitive to an emergent superconducting phase associated to non-local coherent transport. In comparison with results for N=2N=2, we find similarities in the signature peaks of multiple Andreev reflections. We discuss the effect of electron-hole decoherence and of various types of junction asymmetries. Our predictions can be investigated experimentally using tunneling spectroscopy.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05751,
  title  = {Tunable pseudogaps due to non-local coherent transport in voltage-biased three-terminal Josephson junctions},
  author = {Ciprian Padurariu and Thibaut Jonckheere and Jérôme Rech and Thierry Martin and Denis Feinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05751},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages, 17 figures