Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2008-02-27
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 145218 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
11 pages, 6 figures, to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/20/14/145218
We study the superconducting correlations induced in graphene when it is placed between two superconductors, focusing in particular on the supercurrents supported by the 2D system. For this purpose we make use of a formalism placing the emphasis on the many-body aspects of the problem, with the aim of investigating the dependence of the critical currents on relevant variables like the distance L between the superconducting contacts, the temperature, and the doping level. Thus we show that, despite the vanishing density of states at the Fermi level in undoped graphene, supercurrents may exist at zero temperature with a natural 1/L^3 dependence at large L. When temperature effects are taken into account, the supercurrents are further suppressed beyond the thermal length L_T (~ v_F / k_B T, in terms of the Fermi velocity v_F of graphene), entering a regime where the decay is given by a 1/L^5 dependence. On the other hand, the supercurrents can be enhanced upon doping, as the Fermi level is shifted by a chemical potential \mu from the charge neutrality point. This introduces a new crossover length L* ~ v_F / \mu, at which the effects of the finite charge density start being felt, marking the transition from the short-distance 1/L^3 behavior to a softer 1/L^2 decay of the supercurrents at large L. It turns out that the decay of the critical currents is given in general by a power-law behavior, which can be seen as a consequence of the perfect scaling of the Dirac theory applied to the low-energy description of graphene.
Gonzalez Jesús J.
Perfetto Enrico
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