Fermi-Liquid Approach for Superconducting Kondo Problems
Alex Zazunov, Stephan Plugge, Reinhold Egger
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.207701 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We present a Fermi liquid approach to superconducting Kondo problems applicable when the Kondo temperature is large compared to the superconducting gap. To illustrate the theory, we study the current-phase relation and the Andreev level spectrum for an Anderson impurity between two s-wave superconductors. In the particle-hole symmetric Kondo limit, we find a 4π periodic Andreev spectrum. The 4π periodicity persists under a small voltage bias which however causes an asymmetric distortion of Andreev levels. The latter distinguishes the present 4π effect from the one in topological Majorana junctions.
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