Electronic Transport in Hybrid Mesoscopic Structures: A Nonequilibrium Green Function Approach

Details Electronic Transport in Hybrid Mesoscopic Structures: A Nonequilibrium Green Function Approach Electronic Transport in Hybrid Mesoscopic Structures: A Nonequilibrium Green Function Approach

2003-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301264v3

Phys. Rev. B 68, 115319 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

24 pages, 12 eps figures, Revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.115319

We present a unified transport theory of hybrid structures, in which a confined normal state ($N$) sample is sandwiched between two leads each of which can be either a ferromagnet ($F$) or a superconductor ($S$) via tunnel barriers. By introducing a four-dimensional Nambu-spinor space, a general current formula is derived within the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism, which can be applied to various kinds of hybrid mesoscopic systems with strong correlations even in the nonequilibrium situation. Such a formula is gauge invariant. We also demonstrate analytically for some quantities, such as the difference between chemical potentials, superconductor order parameter phases and ferromagnetic magnetization orientations, that only their relative value appears explicitly in the current expression. When applied to specific structures, the formula becomes of the Meir-Wingreen-type favoring strong correlation effects, and reduces to the Landauer-B\"uttiker-type in noninteracting systems such as the double-barrier resonant structures, which we study in detail beyond the wide-band approximation.

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