Subgap structure in asymmetric superconducting tunnel junctions
- 2 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 74 (13), 132501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.74.132501
Abstract
Conductance measurements between two superconducting electrodes with different gap energies and were performed with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The temperature dependence and tip-sample distance dependence of the spectra show a pronounced subgap structure which is interpreted as multiple Andreev reflections (MARs). Low temperature conductance peaks not seen in symmetric superconducting tunnel junctions arise at energies when the superconducting gaps are sufficiently different. We propose an explanation of these findings by extending the full counting statistics of MARs to describe these asymmetric junctions.
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