Nonequilibrium Josephson effect in mesoscopic ballistic multiterminal SNS junctions

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1999-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904276v1

Phys. Rev. B 62, 1319 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

21 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.1319

We present a detailed study of nonequilibrium Josephson currents and conductance in ballistic multiterminal SNS-devices. Nonequilibrium is created by means of quasiparticle injection from a normal reservoir connected to the normal part of the junction. By applying a voltage at the normal reservoir the Josephson current can be suppressed or the direction of the current can be reversed. For a junction longer than the thermal length, $L\gg\xi_T$, the nonequilibrium current increases linearly with applied voltage, saturating at a value equal to the equilibrium current of a short junction. The conductance exhibits a finite bias anomaly around $eV \sim \hbar v_F/L$. For symmetric injection, the conductance oscillates $2\pi$-periodically with the phase difference $\phi$ between the superconductors, with position of the minimum ($\phi=0$ or $\pi$) dependent on applied voltage and temperature. For asymmetric injection, both the nonequilibrium Josephson current and the conductance becomes $\pi$-periodic in phase difference. Inclusion of barriers at the NS-interfaces gives rise to a resonant behavior of the total Josephson current with respect to junction length with a period $\sim \lambda_F$. Both three and four terminal junctions are studied.

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