Thursday, December 27, 2012

1212.6188 (Soo-Young Lee et al.)

Sticky Normal-Superconductor Interface    [PDF]

Soo-Young Lee, Arseni Goussev, Orestis Georgiou, Goran Gligoric, Achilleas Lazarides
We study the quantum Goos-H\"{a}nchen(GH) effect for wave-packet dynamics at a normal/superconductor (NS) interface. We find that the effect is amplified by a factor $(E_F/\Delta)$, with $E_F$ the Fermi energy and $\Delta$ the gap. Interestingly, the GH effect appears only as a time delay $\delta t$ without any lateral shift, and the corresponding delay length is about $(E_F/\Delta)\lambda_F$, with $\lambda_F$ the Fermi wavelength. This makes the NS interface "sticky" when $\Delta \ll E_F$, since typically GH effects are of wavelength order. This "sticky" behavior can be further enhanced by a resonance mode in NSNS interface. Finally, for a large $\Delta$, the resonance-mode effect makes a transition from Andreev to the specular electron reflection as the width of the sandwiched superconductor is reduced.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6188

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