Carsten Timm: Theory of superconductivity

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Since not all electrons are reflected and in addition some holes are generated, where does the missing charge go? The quasiparticle states in the superconductor are evanescent and thus cannot accommodate the missing charge. The only possible explanation is that the charge is added to the superconducting condensate, i.e., that additional Cooper pairs are formed. (The whole process can also run backwards, in which case Cooper pairs are removed.) Recall that the condensate does not have a sharp electron number and can therefore absorb or emit electrons without changing the state. But it can only absorb or emit electrons in pairs. The emerging picture is that if an incoming electron is not specularly reflected, a Cooper pair is created, which requires a second electron. This second electron is taken from the normal region, creating a hole, which, as we have seen, travels in the direction the original electron was coming from. N S e h Cooper pair Andreev bound states An interesting situation arises if a normal region is delimited by superconductors on two sides. We here only qualitatively consider a superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) hetero structure. Similar effects can also occur for example in the normal core of a vortex. If no voltage is applied between the two superconductors, an electron in the normal region, with energy within the gap, is Andreev reflected as a hole at one interface. It is then Andreev reflected as an electron at the other interface. It is plausible that multiple reflections can lead to the formation of bound states. The real physics is somewhat more complicated since the electron is also partially specularly reflected as an electron. It is conceptually clear, though, how to describe Andreev bound states within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism: We just have to satisfy continuity conditions for both interfaces. S N S 2∆ 0 electron hole 2∆ 0 If Andreev reflection dominates, as assumed for the sketch above, a Cooper pair is emitted into the right superconductor for every reflection at the right interface. Conversely, a Cooper pair is absorbed from the left superconductor for every reflection at the left interface. This corresponds to a supercurrent through the device. Andreev bound states thus offer a microscopic description of the Josephson effect in superconductor-normalsuperconductor junctions. If we apply a voltage V , the situation changes dramatically: If an electron moving, say, to the right, increases its kinetic energy by eV due to the bias voltage, an Andreev reflected hole traveling to the left also increases its kinetic energy by eV since it carries the opposite charge. An electron/hole Andreev-reflected multiple times can thus gain arbitrarily high energies for any non-vanishing bias voltage. 118
S N S 2∆ 0 2eV eV In particular, an electron-like quasiparticle from an occupied state below the gap in, say, the left superconductor can after multiple reflections emerge in a previously unoccupied state above the gap in the right superconductor. A new transport channel becomes available whenever the full gap 2∆ 0 is an odd integer multiple of eV : 2∆ 0 = (2n + 1) eV, n = 0, 1, . . . (11.104) ⇒ eV = ∆ 0 n + 1 , n = 0, 1, . . . (11.105) 2 The case n = 0 corresponds to direct quasiparticle transfer from one superconductor to the other, similar to quasiparticle tunneling in a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction. The opening of new transport channels for n = 0, 1, . . . , i.e., at eV = 2 3 ∆ 0, 2 5 ∆ 0, 2 7 ∆ 0, . . . (11.106) leads to structures in the current-voltage characteristics below the gap, specifically to peaks in the differential conductance dI/dV . dI dV ∆ 0 2 3 ∆ 0 2 5 ∆ 0 − 2 0 2 eV ∆ 0 119
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Theory of Superconductivity Carsten
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Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Scope
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1 Introduction 1.1 Scope Supercondu
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2 Basic experiments In this chapter
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Superconductivity with rather high
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• In 1979, Frank Steglich et al.
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3 Bose-Einstein condensation In thi
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We note the identity g n (y) = ∞
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We find a phase transition at T c ,
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gives a reasonable approximation fo
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We now consider the force F = −eE
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5 Electrodynamics of superconductor
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Thus the supercurrent flows in the
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where φ j is the polar angle of el
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with the penetration depth √ √
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N s is the total number of particle
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6.2 Ginzburg-Landau theory for neut
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scope of this course, though. The i
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As above, we keep only terms up to
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Within the mean-field theories we h
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Including the superconducting contr
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The Gibbs free energy of the domain
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The magnetic flux Φ through this l
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Another useful quantity is the free
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We obtain e −ik yy (− 2 2m ∗
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has a simple interpretation: It is
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This is a Gaussian average since F
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Note that in two dimensions the cur
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Thus the energy is ∫ E 2 = 2E cor
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The energy of an isolated vortex-an
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Next, we have to express Z ′ in t
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quasi−long−range order free vor
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which is valid within the film and
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