Equilibrium and time-dependent Josephson current in one-dimensional superconducting junctions

Details Equilibrium and time-dependent Josephson current in one-dimensional superconducting junctions Equilibrium and time-dependent Josephson current in one-dimensional superconducting junctions

2009-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2402v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 205408 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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We investigate the transport properties of a one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) system described within the tight-binding approximation. We compute the equilibrium dc Josephson current and the time-dependent oscillating current generated after the switch-on of a constant bias. In the first case an exact embedding procedure to calculate the Nambu-Gorkov Keldysh Green's function is employed and used to derive the continuum and bound states contributions to the dc current. A general formalism to obtain the Andreev bound states (ABS) of a normal chain connected to superconducting leads is also presented. We identify a regime in which all Josephson current is carried by the ABS and obtain an analytic formula for the current-phase relation in the limit of long chains. In the latter case the condition for perfect Andreev reflections is expressed in terms of the microscopic parameters of the model, showing a limitation of the so called wide-band-limit (WBL) approximation. When a finite bias is applied to the S-N-S junction we compute the exact time-evolution of the system by solving numerically the time-dependent Bogoliubov-deGennes equations. We provide a microscopic description of the electron dynamics not only inside the normal region but also in the superconductors, thus gaining more information with respect to WBL-based approaches. Our scheme allows us to study the ac regime as well as the transient dynamics whose characteristic time-scale is dictated by the velocity of multiple Andreev reflections.

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