Tunneling conductance study of a metal-superconductor junction in the presence of Rashba spin orbit coupling

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• 作者：Priyadarshini Kapri ; Saurabh Basu
• 关键词：Solid State and Materials
• 刊名：The European Physical Journal B
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：90
• 期：2
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Condensed Matter Physics; Physics, general; Complex Systems; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Solid State Physics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1434-6036
• 卷排序：90

文摘

The tunneling conductance for a junction device consisting of a normal metal and a singlet superconductor is studied with Rashba spin orbit coupling (RSOC) being present in the metallic lead and the interface separating the two regions via an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) formalism. Interesting interplay between the RSOC and a number of parameters that have experimental significance, and characterize either the junction or the superconducting leads, such as the barrier transparency, quasiparticle lifetime, Fermi wavevector mismatch, an in-plane magnetic field and their effects on the tunneling conductance are investigated in details for both a s-wave and a d-wave superconductor. In an opaque barrier, in presence of a quasiparticle lifetime, a Fermi wavevector mismatch or an external in-plane magnetic field, RSOC enhances the conductance corresponding to low biasing energies, that is, at energies lesser than the superconducting gap, while the reverse is noted for energies exceeding the magnitude of the gap. Further, there are exciting anomalies noted in the conductance spectrum for the d-wave gap which can be understood by incorporating the interplay between the superconducting gap and the angle of incident of the charge carriers.