Semiclassical theory in Andreev billiards: beyond the diagonal approximation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/29/L03zbMATH Open1105.82032arXivcond-mat/0607128MaRDI QIDQ5484411FDOQ5484411

Authors: Oleg Valentinovich Zaĭtsev 

Publication date: 17 August 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently semiclassical approximations have been successfully applied to study the effect of a superconducting lead on the density of states and conductance in ballistic billiards. However, the summation over classical trajectories involved in such theories was carried out using the intuitive picture of Andreev reflection rather than the semiclassical reasoning. We propose a method to calculate the semiclassical sums which allows us to go beyond the diagonal approximation in these problems. In particular, we address the question of whether the off-diagonal corrections could explain the gap in the density of states of a chaotic Andreev billiard.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607128

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zbMATH Keywords

Andreev reflectiondensity of statessuperconductivityFermi energyscattering matriceschaotic billiardThouless energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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