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Phys. Rev. B 40, 8673–8686 (1989)

Green’s function in proximity-contact superconducting-normal double layers

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Masami Ashida, Shingo Aoyama, Jun’ichiro Hara, and Katsuhiko Nagai
Department of Physics, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753, Japan

Received 27 June 1989; published in the issue dated 1 November 1989

The Green’s function in a proximity-contact superconducting-normal (S-N) finite double layer with a spatially varying pair function and with finite reflection coefficient R at the interface is discussed in the clean limit. We first obtain a solution of the Gor’kov equation in a form including a quasiclassical evolution operator that can fully describe the spatial variation of the quasiclassical Green’s function. Then we perform analytically the averages of the Green’s function over rapidly oscillating phase factors due to the quantum interference effects in the finite double layers. The averaged results of the Matsubara Green’s function and the density of states are written in terms of elliptic integrals. The effect of finite R is illustrated on the tunneling density of states. The applicability of the present theory to S-N superlattice is mentioned. We show that the conventional normalization condition of the quasiclassical Green’s function does not hold in the double-layer system with finite R.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.40.8673
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.40.8673
PACS:
74.50.+r, 74.70.Jm