Cserti, J. and Vattay, G. and Koltai, J. and Taddei, F. and Lambert, C. J. (2000) Negative Length Orbits in Normal-Superconductor Billiard Systems. Physical Review Letters, 85 (17). pp. 3704-3707.Full text not available from this repository.
The path-length spectra of mesoscopic systems including diffractive scatterers and connected to a superconductor are studied theoretically. We show that the spectra differ fundamentally from that of normal systems due to the presence of Andreev reflection. It is shown that negative path lengths should arise in the spectra as opposed to the normal system. To highlight this effect we carried out both quantum mechanical and semiclassical calculations for the simplest possible diffractive scatterer. The most pronounced peaks in the path-length spectra of the reflection amplitude are identified by the routes that the electron and/or hole travels.
|Journal or Publication Title:||Physical Review Letters|
|Subjects:||Q Science > QC Physics|
|Departments:||Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics|
|Deposited By:||Prof Colin J. Lambert|
|Deposited On:||26 Jul 2007|
|Last Modified:||07 Jan 2015 16:01|
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