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Single charge current in a normal mesoscopic region attached to superconductor leads via a coupled poisson
David Verrilli1, F P Marin1, Rafael Rangel2
1Laboratorio de Física Teórica de Sólidos (LFTS), Centro de Física Teórica y Computacional (CEFITEC), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, A.P. 47586, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela.
Abstract:
We study the I-V characteristic of mesoscopic systems or quantum dot (QD) attached to a pair of superconducting leads. Interaction effects in the QD are considered through the charging energy of the QD; that is, the treatment of current transport under a voltage bias is performed within a coupled Poisson nonequilibrium Green function (PNEGF) formalism. We derive the expression for the current in full generality but consider only the regime where transport occurs only via a single particle current. We show for this case and for various charging energies values U 0 and associated capacitances of the QD the effect on the I-V characteristic. Also the influence of the coupling constants on the I-V characteristic is investigated. Our approach puts forward a novel interpretation of experiments in the strong Coulomb regime.
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