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Resonant spin transport through a superconducting double-barrier structure

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Published 10 December 2009 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation Arijit Kundu et al 2009 EPL 88 57003 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/88/57003

0295-5075/88/5/57003

Abstract

We study resonant transport through a superconducting double-barrier structure. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a hole (Andreev reflection). Similarly, transport across the barrier can occur via direct tunneling as electrons as well as via the crossed Andreev channel, where a hole is transmitted. In the subgap regime, for a symmetric double-barrier system (with low transparency for each barrier), we find a new T=1/4 resonance (T is the transmission probability for electrons incident on the double-barrier structure) due to interference between electron and hole wave functions between the two barriers, in contrast to a normal double-barrier system which has the standard transmission resonance at T=1. We also point out as an application that the resonant value of T=1/4 can produce pure spin current through the superconducting double-barrier structure.

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10.1209/0295-5075/88/57003