Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in InAs nanowire-based SNS junctions
Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in InAs nanowire-based SNS junctions
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DOI:
10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113025
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发表时间:
2009-11-13
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Nygard, J.
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作者:
Jespersen, T. S.;Polianski, M. L.;Nygard, J.
We report a systematic experimental study of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in superconductor/normal/superconductor (SNS) devices Nb/InAs-nanowire/Nb. These fluctuations far exceed their value in the normal state and strongly depend on temperature even in the low-temperature regime. This dependence is attributed to high sensitivity of perfectly conducting channels to dephasing and the SNS fluctuations thus provide a sensitive probe of dephasing in a regime where normal transport fails to detect it. Further, the conductance fluctuations are strongly nonlinear in bias voltage and reveal subgap structure. The experimental findings are qualitatively explained in terms of multiple Andreev reflections in chaotic quantum dots with imperfect contacts.