Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-10-27
Phys. Rev. B 79, 064502 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
13 pages, 9 figures. Typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064502
Using the self-consistent tight-binding Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism we have studied the effect of nearest neighbor spin-singlet bond (SB) correlations on Josephson coupling and proximity effect in graphene SNS Josephson junctions with conventional s-wave superconducting contacts. Despite the s-wave superconducting state in the contacts, the SB pairing state inside the junction has d-wave symmetry and clean, sharp interface junctions resemble a 'bulk-meets-bulk' situation with very little interaction between the two different superconducting states. In fact, due to a finite-size suppression of the superconducting state, a stronger SB coupling constant than in the bulk is needed in order to achieve SB pairing in a junction. For both short clean zigzag and armchair junctions a d-wave state that has a zero Josephson coupling to the s-wave state is chosen and therefore the Josephson current decreases when a SB pairing state develops in these junctions. In more realistic junctions, with smoother doping profiles and atomic scale disorder at the interfaces, it is possible to achieve some coupling between the contact s-wave state and the SB d-wave states. In addition, by breaking the appropriate lattice symmetry at the interface in order to induce another d-wave state, a non-zero Josephson coupling can be achieved which leads to a substantial increase in the Josephson current. We also report on the LDOS of the junctions and on a lack of zero energy states at interfaces despite the unconventional order parameters, which we attribute to the near degeneracy of the two d-wave solutions and their mixing at a general interface.
Black-Schaffer Annica M.
Doniach Sebastian
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