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Dynamical Coulomb blockade of multiple Andreev reflections

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We analyze the dynamical Coulomb blockade of multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) in a superconducting quantum point contact coupled to a macroscopic impedance. We find that at very low transmission the blockade scales as n2n^2 with n=Int(2Δ/eV)n = {Int}(2\Delta/eV), where VV is the bias voltage and Δ\Delta is the superconducting gap, as it would correspond to the occurrence of "shots" of charge nene. For higher transmission the blockade is reduced both due to Pauli principle and to elastic renormalization of the MAR probability, and for certain voltage regions it may even become an "antiblockade", i.e. the current is enhanced due to the coupling with the electromagnetic environment.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504130,
  title  = {Dynamical Coulomb blockade of multiple Andreev reflections},
  author = {A. Levy Yeyati and J. C. Cuevas and A. Martin-Rodero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504130},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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