Even-odd parity effects in conductance and shot noise of metal-atomic wire-metal(superconducting) junctions

Details Even-odd parity effects in conductance and shot noise of metal-atomic wire-metal(superconducting) junctions Even-odd parity effects in conductance and shot noise of metal-atomic wire-metal(superconducting) junctions

2002-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202367v2

Phys. Rev. B 65, 214526 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

12 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.214526

In this paper, we study the conductance and shot noise in transport through a multi-site system in a two terminal configuration. The dependence of the transport on the number of atoms in the atomic wire is investigated using a tight-binding Hamiltonian and the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In addition to reproducing the even-odd behavior in the transmission probability at the Fermi energy or the linear response conductance in the normal-atomic wire-normal metallic(NAN) junctions, we find the following: (i) The shot noise is larger in the even-numbered atomic wire than in the odd-numbered wire. (ii) The Andreev conductance displays the same even-odd parity effects in the normal-atomic wire-superconducting(NAS) junctions. In general, the conductance is higher in the odd-numbered atomic wire than in the even-numbered wire. When the number of sites ($N$) is odd and the atomic wire is mirror symmetric with respect to the center of the atomic wire, the conductance does not depend on the details of the hopping matrices in the atomic wire, but is solely determined by the coupling strength to the two leads. When $N$ is even, the conductance is sensitive to the values of the hopping matrices.

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