Large thermoelectric effect in ballistic Andreev interferometers

作者:Kalenkov Mikhail S*; Zaikin Andrei D
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2017, 95(2): 024518.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024518

摘要

Employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity combined with Keldysh technique we investigate large thermoelectric effect in multiterminal ballistic normal-superconducting hybrid structures. We argue that this effect is caused by electron-hole asymmetry generated by coherent Andreev reflection of quasiparticles at interfaces of two different superconductors with nonzero phase difference. Within our model we derive a general expression for thermoelectric voltages V-T1,V-2 induced in two different normal terminals exposed to a thermal gradient. Our results apply at any temperature difference in the subgap regime and allow us to explicitly analyze both temperature and phase dependencies of V-T1,V-2, demonstrating that in general there exists no fundamental relation between these voltages and the equilibrium Josephson current in superconducting-normal-superconducting junction.

  • 出版日期2017-1-31