Tunneling conductance in s- and d-wave superconductor-graphene junctions: Extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism

Jacob Linder; Asle Sudbø

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.064507

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Tunneling conductance in s- and d-wave superconductor-graphene junctions: Extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism

Jacob Linder, Asle Sudbø

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.064507 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We investigate the conductance spectra of a normal-superconductor graphene junction using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism, considering pairing potentials that are both conventional (isotropic s-wave) and unconventional (anisotropic d-wave). In particular, we study the full crossover from normal to specular Andreev reflection without restricting ourselves to special limits and approximations, thus expanding results obtained in previous work. In addition, we investigate in detail how the conductance spectra are affected if it is possible to induce an unconventional pairing symmetry in graphene—for instance, a d-wave order parameter. We also discuss the recently reported conductance oscillations that take place in normal-superconductor graphene junctions, providing both analytical and numerical results.