Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2002-10-18
Physical Review B 67, 172506 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.172506
We demonstrate that the exact quantum mechanical calculations are in good agreement with the semiclassical predictions for rectangular Andreev billiards and therefore for a large number of open channels it is sufficient to investigate the Bohr-Sommerfeld approximation of the density of states. We present exact calculations of the classical path length distribution $P(s)$ which is a non-differentiable function of $s$, but whose integral is a smooth function with logarithmically dependent asymptotic behavior. Consequently, the density of states of rectangular Andreev billiards has two contributions on the scale of the Thouless energy: one which is well-known and it is proportional to the energy, and the other which shows a logarithmic energy dependence. It is shown that the prefactors of both contributions depend on the geometry of the billiards but they have universal limiting values when the width of the superconductor tends to zero.
Cserti József
Kaufmann Z.
Kormanyos Andor
Lambert Jean-Charles
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