Photon-assisted Andreev tunneling through a mesoscopic hybrid system
Qing-feng Sun, Jian Wang, Tsung-han Lin
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.13126 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
The electron tunneling through a mesoscopic hybrid system, a normal-metal–quantum-dot–superconductor (N−QD−S) system where the intradot Coulomb interaction is neglected, in the presence of the time-varying external fields, has been investigated. By using the nonequilibrium Green-function method, the time-dependent current jL(t) and the average current 〈j(t)〉 are derived. The photon-assisted Andreev tunneling (PAAT) and the normal photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) are studied in detail. In the case of ħω<Δ, where ω is the frequency of external fields and Δ is the energy gap of the superconducting lead, the average current 〈j〉 vs the gate voltage exhibits a series of equal-interval PAAT peaks, with negative peaks on the left-hand side and positive peaks on the right-hand side of the original resonant peak in the absence of the external fields. This is very different from the N−QD−N system. While for ħω>Δ, various PAT processes cause a rather complicated dependence of the current on the gate voltage. In addition, the current–bias-voltage characteristics become more complicated: each Andreev reflection peak is split into side-band peaks and each current plateau is split into substep plateaus.
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