Photon-assisted resonant Andreev reflections: Yu-Shiba-Rusinov and Majorana states
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Photon-assisted resonant Andreev reflections : Yu-Shiba-Rusinov and Majorana states. / Gonzalez, Sergio Acero; Melischek, Larissa; Peters, Olof; Flensberg, Karsten; Franke, Katharina J.; von Oppen, Felix.
In: Physical Review B, Vol. 102, No. 4, 045413, 10.07.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Photon-assisted resonant Andreev reflections
T2 - Yu-Shiba-Rusinov and Majorana states
AU - Gonzalez, Sergio Acero
AU - Melischek, Larissa
AU - Peters, Olof
AU - Flensberg, Karsten
AU - Franke, Katharina J.
AU - von Oppen, Felix
PY - 2020/7/10
Y1 - 2020/7/10
N2 - Photon-assisted tunneling frequently provides detailed information on the underlying charge-transfer process. In particular, the Tien-Gordon approach and its extensions predict that the sideband spacing in bias voltage is a direct fingerprint of the number of electrons transferred in a single tunneling event. Here, we analyze photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states in superconductors in the limit of small temperatures and bias voltages where tunneling is dominated by resonant Andreev processes and does not conform to the predictions of simple Tien-Gordon theory. Our analysis is based on a systematic Keldysh calculation of the subgap conductance and provides a detailed analytical understanding of photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states, in excellent agreement with a recent experiment. We focus on tunneling from superconducting electrodes and into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states associated with magnetic impurities or adatoms, but we also explicitly extend our results to include normal-metal electrodes or other types of subgap states in superconductors. In particular, we argue that photon-assisted Andreev reflections provide a high-accuracy method to measure small but nonzero energies of subgap states which can be important for distinguishing conventional subgap states from Majorana bound states.
AB - Photon-assisted tunneling frequently provides detailed information on the underlying charge-transfer process. In particular, the Tien-Gordon approach and its extensions predict that the sideband spacing in bias voltage is a direct fingerprint of the number of electrons transferred in a single tunneling event. Here, we analyze photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states in superconductors in the limit of small temperatures and bias voltages where tunneling is dominated by resonant Andreev processes and does not conform to the predictions of simple Tien-Gordon theory. Our analysis is based on a systematic Keldysh calculation of the subgap conductance and provides a detailed analytical understanding of photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states, in excellent agreement with a recent experiment. We focus on tunneling from superconducting electrodes and into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states associated with magnetic impurities or adatoms, but we also explicitly extend our results to include normal-metal electrodes or other types of subgap states in superconductors. In particular, we argue that photon-assisted Andreev reflections provide a high-accuracy method to measure small but nonzero energies of subgap states which can be important for distinguishing conventional subgap states from Majorana bound states.
KW - GAP STRUCTURE
KW - BOUND-STATES
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045413
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045413
M3 - Journal article
VL - 102
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
SN - 2469-9950
IS - 4
M1 - 045413
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