Issue |
EPL
Volume 86, Number 3, May 2009
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Article Number | 37009 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/37009 | |
Published online | 19 May 2009 |
Non-local Andreev reflection under ac bias
1
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie - 76021, Karlsruhe, Germany, EU
2
I.E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute - 119991 Moscow, Russia
Corresponding author: golubev@int.fzk.de
Received:
17
February
2009
Accepted:
17
April
2009
We theoretically analyze non-local electron transport in multi-terminal normal-metalsuperconductor
normal-metal (NSN) devices in the presence of an external ac voltage bias. Our analysis reveals a number of interesting effects, such as, e.g., photon-assisted violation of balance between crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) and elastic cotunneling (EC). We demonstrate that at sufficiently small (typically subgap) frequencies of an external ac signal and at low temperatures the non-local conductance of the NSN device turns negative implying that in this regime CAR contribution to the non-local current dominates over that of EC. Our predictions can be directly tested in future experiments.
PACS: 74.45.+c – Proximity effects; Andreev effect; SN and SNS junctions / 73.23.-b – Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems / 74.78.Na – Mesoscopic and nanoscale systems
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