Dephasing-enabled triplet Andreev conductance

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作者
Beri, B. [1 ]
机构
[1] Leiden Univ, Inst Lorentz, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2009年 / 79卷 / 24期
关键词
chaos; electric admittance; proximity effect (superconductivity); quantum dots; spin-orbit interactions; superconducting materials; SUPERCONDUCTOR-FERROMAGNET STRUCTURES; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; VOLTAGE-PROBE; PHASE BREAKING; CHAOTIC CAVITY; SCATTERING; COHERENT; MATRIX; DOTS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.245315
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We study the conductance of normal-superconducting quantum dots with strong spin-orbit scattering coupled to a source reservoir using a single-mode spin-filtering quantum-point contact. The choice of the system is guided by the aim to study triplet Andreev reflection without relying on half-metallic materials with specific interface properties. Focusing on the zero-temperature, zero-bias regime, we show how dephasing due to the presence of a voltage probe enables the conductance, which vanishes in the quantum limit, to take nonzero values. Concentrating on chaotic quantum dots, we obtain the full distribution of the conductance as a function of the dephasing rate. As dephasing gradually lifts the conductance from zero, the dependence of the conductance fluctuations on the dephasing rate is nonmonotonic. This is in contrast to chaotic quantum dots in usual transport situations, where dephasing monotonically suppresses the conductance fluctuations.
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