INTERFERENCE OF 2 ELECTRONS ENTERING A SUPERCONDUCTOR

被引:186
作者
HEKKING, FWJ
NAZAROV, YV
机构
[1] Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 7500 Karlsruhe
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1625
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the normal metal at a mesoscopic length scale and the intrinsic coherence of the superconductor. We evaluated the interference effect on the transport through an NS tunnel junction. We propose the layouts to observe drastic Aharonov-Bohm and Josephson effects.
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页码:1625 / 1628
页数:4
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