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Phys. Rev. B 77, 134513 (2008) [14 pages]

Real-time diagrammatic approach to transport through interacting quantum dots with normal and superconducting leads

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Michele Governale1, Marco G. Pala2, and Jürgen König1,3
1Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
2IMEP-LAHC-MINATEC (UMR CNRS/INPG/UJF 5130), 38016 Grenoble, France
3Theoretische Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany

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Received 7 February 2008; revised 20 March 2008; published 17 April 2008

We present a real-time diagrammatic theory for transport through interacting quantum dots tunnel coupled to normal and superconducting leads. Our formulation describes both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium superconducting proximity effects in a quantum dot. We study a three-terminal transistor geometry, consisting of a single-level quantum dot tunnel coupled to two phase-biased superconducting leads and one voltage-biased normal lead. We compute both the Josephson current between the two superconductors and the Andreev current in the normal lead, and analyze their switching on and off as well as transitions between 0 and π states as a function of gate and bias voltages. For the limit of large superconducting gaps in the leads, we describe the formation of Andreev bound states within an exact resummation of all orders in the tunnel coupling to the superconducting leads, and we discuss their signature in the nonequilibrium Josephson and Andreev currents and the quantum-dot charge.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134513
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134513
PACS:
74.45.+c, 73.23.Hk, 73.63.Kv, 73.21.La

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Erratum: Michele Governale, Marco G. Pala, and Jürgen König, Erratum: Real-time diagrammatic approach to transport through interacting quantum dots with normal and superconducting leads [Phys. Rev. B 77, 134513 (2008)], Phys. Rev. B 78, 069902 (2008).