Tunnel junctions of unconventional superconductors
Condensed Matter
2009-10-22 v3
Abstract
The phenomenology of Josephson tunnel junctions between unconventional superconductors is developed further. In contrast to s-wave superconductors, for d-wave superconductors the direction dependence of the tunnel matrix elements that describe the barrier is relevant. We find the full I-V characteristics and comment on the thermodynamical properties of these junctions. They depend sensitively on the relative orientation of the superconductors. The I-V characteristics differ from the normal s-wave RSJ-like behavior.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9412002,
title = {Tunnel junctions of unconventional superconductors},
author = {C. Bruder and A. van Otterlo and G. T. Zimanyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9412002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, revtex, 4 (encapsulated postscript) figures (figures replaced)