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Phys. Rev. B 70, 064507 (2004) [8 pages]

Phase-dependent counting statistics in a short-arm Andreev interferometer

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E. V. Bezuglyi1,2, E. N. Bratus’1, V. S. Shumeiko3, and V. Vinokur2
1Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ilinois 60439, USA
3Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg S-41296, Sweden

Received 8 January 2004; revised 9 April 2004; published 18 August 2004

We calculate analytically the full counting statistics for short normal metal-superconductor junctions for arbitrary voltages and temperatures. We also consider the phase oscillations of the cumulant-generating function in Andreev interferometers. At T=0 and at applied voltage much smaller than the proximity gap Δϕ, the current noise PI doubles and the third current cumulant C3 is 4 times larger compared to the normal state; at eVΔϕ they acquire large excess components. At the gap edge, eV=Δϕ, the differential shot noise dPIdV exhibits sharp peak, while the differential Fano factor dPIdI turns to zero along with the differential resistance, which reflects the transmission resonance associated with the singularity of the density of states. At nonzero temperature, C3 shows a nonmonotonous voltage dependence with a dip near eV=Δϕ; the zero-bias slope of C3(V) is much larger (up to 5 times) than at the zero temperature.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.064507
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.70.064507
PACS:
74.45.+c, 74.40.+k, 72.70.+m