Physical Review Letters · 1996 · 128 citations · 12 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsSolid State PhysicsTransport PhenomenaElectrical ConductivityElectron TransportInterface PhysicsMetalsStrongly Correlated Electron SystemsSuperconducting MaterialsAharonov-bohm EffectCoherence LengthConductanceDiffusive Thermal TransportDiffusive TransportDiffusive Transport Across InterfacesMesoscopic TransportSuperconducting Properties
We present an experimental study of the diffusive transport in a normal metal near a superconducting interface, showing the reentrance of the metallic conductance at very low temperature. This new mesoscopic regime comes in when the thermal coherence length of the electron pairs exceeds the sample size. The reentrance is suppressed by a bias voltage given by the Thouless energy and can be strongly enhanced by an Aharonov-Bohm flux. Experimental results are well described by the linearized quasiclassical theory.
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Diffusive Conductors as Andreev Interferometers
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Long-Range Coherence in a Mesoscopic Metal near a Superconducting Interface
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