Correlated tunneling into a superconductor in a multiprobe hybrid structure

Details Correlated tunneling into a superconductor in a multiprobe hybrid structure Correlated tunneling into a superconductor in a multiprobe hybrid structure

2000-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011339v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages, 1 figure, accepted in Europhysics Letters, minor changes, 3 references added

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2001-00303-0

We consider tunneling in a hybrid system consisting of a superconductor with two or more probe electrodes which can be either normal metals or polarized ferromagnets. In particular we study transport at subgap voltages and temperatures. Besides Andreev pair tunneling at each contact, in multi-probe structures subgap transport involves additional channels, which are due to coherent propagation of two particles (electrons or holes), each originating from a different probe electrode. The relevant processes are electron cotunneling through the superconductor and conversion of two electrons stemming from different probes in a Cooper pair. These processes are non-local and decay when the distance between the pair of involved contacts is larger than the superconducting coherence length. The conductance matrix of a the three terminal hybrid structure is calculated. The multi-probe processes enhance the conductance of each contact. If the contacts are magnetically polarized the contribution of the various conduction channels may be separately detected.

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