Josephson current in unconventional superconductors through an Anderson impurity

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作者
Avishai, Y [1 ]
Golub, A
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[1] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Phys, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Solid State Phys, Minato Ku, Tokyo 106, Japan
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10.1103/PhysRevB.61.11293
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Josephson current for a system consisting of an Anderson impurity weakly coupled to two unconventional superconductors is studied and shown to be driven by a surface zero energy (midgap) bound state. The repulsive Coulomb interaction in the dot can turn a pi junction into a 0 junction. This effect is more pronounced in p-wave superconductors while in high-temperature superconductors with d(x2-y2) symmetry it can exist for rather large artificial centers at which tunneling occurs within a finite region.
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