Andreev bound states and supercurrent in disordered spin-orbit-coupled nanowire superconductor-normal-superconductor junctions
Jonas Lidal, Jeroen Danon
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064516 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We use a single-channel scattering formalism to derive general expressions for the Andreev bound-state energies and resulting current-phase relationship in a one-dimensional semiconductor-based SNS junction, including arbitrarily oriented effective spin-orbit and Zeeman fields and taking into account disorder in the junction in by including a single scatterer with transmission probability 0≤T2≤1, arbitrarily located in the normal region. We first corroborate our results by comparing them to the known analytic limiting-case expressions. Then we simplify our general result in several additional limits, including the case of the scatterer being at a specific location and the cases of small and large spin-orbit fields compared to the Zeeman splitting, assuming low transparency (T≪1). We believe that our results could be helpful for disentangling the main spin-mixing processes in experiments on low-dimensional semiconductor-based SNS junctions.
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