Weak Charge Quantization on Superconducting Islands
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Superconductivity
Abstract
We consider the Coulomb blockade on a superconductive quantum dot strongly coupled to a lead through a tunnelling barrier and/or normal diffusive metal. Andreev transport of the correlated pairs leads to quantum fluctuations of the charge on the dot. These fluctuations result in exponential renormalization of the effective charging energy. We employ two complimentary ways to approach the problem, leading to the coinciding results: the instanton and the functional RG treatment of the non-linear sigma model. We also derive the charging energy renormalization in terms of arbitrary transmission matrix of the multi-channel interface.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203586,
title = {Weak Charge Quantization on Superconducting Islands},
author = {M. V. Feigelman and A. Kamenev and A. I. Larkin and M. A. Skvortsov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203586},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, 4 eps figures, RevTeX