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Auteurs principaux: Capecelatro, Roberto, Marciani, Marco, Campagnano, Gabriele, Lucignano, Procolo
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Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01702
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author Capecelatro, Roberto
Marciani, Marco
Campagnano, Gabriele
Lucignano, Procolo
author_facet Capecelatro, Roberto
Marciani, Marco
Campagnano, Gabriele
Lucignano, Procolo
contents We investigate the transport properties of open Josephson junctions (JJs) through a minimal effective non-Hermitian (NH) approach derived from the equilibrium Green's function (GF) formalism. Specifically, we consider a JJ with a quantum dot barrier coupled to a normal metal reservoir. The coupling introduces an imaginary self-energy term in the JJ Hamiltonian which can be naturally accounted for in the NH formalism. While most approaches to similar problems work with the full junction Hamiltonian we propose a scheme for deriving an effective NH Hamiltonian for the Andreev levels only, that we compute from the singular part of the barrier GF. To establish the range of applicability of this NH model we benchmark our results for both the dot density of states and the supercurrent against exact GF predictions in different transport regimes. We find that, as a rule of thumb, the Andreev NH description is accurate when the spectral overlap between the Andreev bound states (ABS) and the near-gap continuum states is negligible, i.e. when the ABS energies lie sufficiently far from the superconducting gap relative to their line-width. This method not only highlights the effective physics of the JJ but also offers a scalable framework for studying large-size devices.
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spellingShingle Andreev non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for open Josephson junctions from Green's functions
Capecelatro, Roberto
Marciani, Marco
Campagnano, Gabriele
Lucignano, Procolo
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We investigate the transport properties of open Josephson junctions (JJs) through a minimal effective non-Hermitian (NH) approach derived from the equilibrium Green's function (GF) formalism. Specifically, we consider a JJ with a quantum dot barrier coupled to a normal metal reservoir. The coupling introduces an imaginary self-energy term in the JJ Hamiltonian which can be naturally accounted for in the NH formalism. While most approaches to similar problems work with the full junction Hamiltonian we propose a scheme for deriving an effective NH Hamiltonian for the Andreev levels only, that we compute from the singular part of the barrier GF. To establish the range of applicability of this NH model we benchmark our results for both the dot density of states and the supercurrent against exact GF predictions in different transport regimes. We find that, as a rule of thumb, the Andreev NH description is accurate when the spectral overlap between the Andreev bound states (ABS) and the near-gap continuum states is negligible, i.e. when the ABS energies lie sufficiently far from the superconducting gap relative to their line-width. This method not only highlights the effective physics of the JJ but also offers a scalable framework for studying large-size devices.
title Andreev non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for open Josephson junctions from Green's functions
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01702