Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2004-07-07
Phy. Rev. B 70, 104511 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
To appear in PRB
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.70.104511
We investigate ac Josephson effects between two superconductors connected by a single-mode quantum point contact, where the gap amplitudes in the two superconductors are unequal. In these systems, it was found in previous studies on the dc effects that, besides the Andreev bound-states, the continuum states can also contribute to the current. Using the quasiclassical formulation, we calculate the current-voltage characteristics for general transmission $D$ of the point contact. To emphasize bound versus continuum states, we examine in detail the low bias, ballistic (D=1) limit. It is shown that in this limit the current-voltage characteristics can be determined from the current-phase relation, if we pay particular attention to the different behaviors of these states under the bias voltage. For unequal gap configurations, the continuum states give rise to non-zero sine components. We also demonstrate that in this limit the temperature dependence of the dc component follows $\tanh(\Delta_s/2T)$, where $\Delta_s$ is the smaller gap, with the contribution coming entirely from the bound state.
Wu Shin-Tza
Yip Sungkit
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