Tunable decoherence in the vicinity of a normal metal-superconducting junction

Details Tunable decoherence in the vicinity of a normal metal-superconducting junction Tunable decoherence in the vicinity of a normal metal-superconducting junction

2000-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011244v2

Phys. Rev. B 64, 035315 (2001).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.035315

The decoherence rate of a quantum dot coupled to a fluctuating environment described by a normal-metal superconductor junction is considered. The density-density correlator at low frequencies constitutes the kernel which enters the calculation of the phase coherence time. The density fluctuations are connected to the finite frequency current-current correlations in the point contact via the continuity equation. Below and above the gap, at zero temperature the density correlator contains spatial oscillations at half of the Fermi wave length on the normal side. As the bias crosses the superconducting gap, the opening of new scattering channels enhances the decoherence rate dramatically, suggesting the possibility of tuning the decoherence rate in a controllable manner.

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