Contact resistance dependence of crossed Andreev reflection

Details Contact resistance dependence of crossed Andreev reflection Contact resistance dependence of crossed Andreev reflection

2008-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3553v2

Europhys. Lett. 87, 27011 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/87/27011

We show experimentally that in nanometer scaled superconductor/normal metal hybrid devices and in a small window of contact resistances, crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) can dominate the nonlocal transport for all energies below the superconducting gap. Besides CAR, elastic cotunneling (EC) and nonlocal charge imbalance (CI) can be identified as competing subgap transport mechanisms in temperature dependent four-terminal nonlocal measurements. We demonstrate a systematic change of the nonlocal resistance vs. bias characteristics with increasing contact resistances, which can be varied in the fabrication process. For samples with higher contact resistances, CAR is weakened relative to EC in the midgap regime, possibly due to dynamical Coulomb blockade. Gaining control of CAR is an important step towards the realization of a solid state entangler.

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