Manifestation of coherent effects in the conductivity of superconductor/insulator/normal-metal/insulator/superconductor junctions
I. P. Nevirkovets, S. E. Shafranjuk, J. B. Ketterson
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.024514 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
An experimental and theoretical study is presented of coherent effects in electron transport in the double-barrier SINIS junctions (where S, I, and N denote a superconductor, insulator, and normal metal, respectively). The appearance of a steplike subgap structure in the current-voltage characteristics of the Nb/Al/AlOx/Al/AlOx/Al/Nb superconducting junctions at a voltage V∼ΔNb/e (where ΔNb is the superconducting energy gap of Nb) is interpreted as a manifestation of a nonequilibrium supercurrent at finite dc bias voltage (Finite-Bias Josephson Effect). The origin of this effect lies in the energy-band structure associated with a set of macroscopic quantum states characteristic of a SINIS junction. Specifically, the junction can have an energy level near energy ΔNb, which provides an additional channel for dc Josephson current at V∼ΔNb/e. In addition, sharp features in the conductivity at a voltage near the gap-sum voltage were observed in both SINIS and SINININIS junctions, implying correlated quasiparticle tunneling in multiple-barrier junctions. Our theoretical model provides a good qualitative description of the quasiparticle conductivity, including narrow peaks at finite voltage and a zero-voltage anomaly observed on some samples, and suggests an alternative explanation of a feature interpreted earlier as gap-difference feature associated with the tunneling extraction of quasiparticles from the middle Al layer.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nb Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | — | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| Al Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 1.7 | Pressure not reported | onset |
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