Higgs amplitude mode in ballistic superconducting hybrid junctions
P. Vallet, J. Cayssol
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.094515 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
In superconductors, the Higgs amplitude mode is a coherent oscillation of the order parameter typically generated by terahertz laser irradiation. In this paper we propose to probe the Higgs mode using electronic transport in ballistic superconducting hybrid devices. We first confirm the existence of a nonzero amplitude mode in the clean case using the Keldysh-Eilenberger formalism. We then investigate two different device geometries: respectively, a normal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction and a normal-superconducting-normal metal (NSN) junction with two transparent interfaces, the superconductor being irradiated in both situations. In the NIS case, the Higgs manifests itself in the second-order AC current response which is resonant at the Higgs frequency. In the NSN case, the DC differential conductance allows one to probe the gaps dynamically generated by the Higgs mode in the Floquet spectrum.
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