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arxiv: cond-mat/0611577 · v1 · pith:L6GW5CVEnew · submitted 2006-11-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.supr-con

Josephson effect in mesoscopic graphene strips with finite width

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.supr-con
keywords edgesstripsupercurrenttextitarmchaircarriersconcentrationcritical
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We study Josephson effect in a ballistic graphene strip of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and arbitrary width $W$. We find that the dependence of the critical supercurrent $I_{c}$ on $W$ is drastically different for different types of the edges. For \textit{smooth} and \textit{armchair} edges at low concentration of the carriers $I_{c}$ decreases monotonically with decreasing $W/L$ and tends to a constant minimum for a narrow strip $W/L\lesssim1$. The minimum supercurrent is zero for smooth edges but has a finite value $e\Delta_{0}/\hbar$ for the armchair edges. At higher concentration of the carriers, in addition to this overall monotonic variation, the critical current undergoes a series of peaks with varying $W$. On the other hand in a strip with \textit{zigzag} edges the supercurrent is half-integer quantized to $(n+1/2)4e\Delta_{0}/\hbar$, showing a step-wise variation with $W$.

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