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arxiv: cond-mat/0107165 · v1 · submitted 2001-07-09 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.supr-con

Commensurability effects in Andreev antidot billiards

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keywords andreevcommensurabilityantidoteffectsreflectionsuppressionalgasbantidots
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An Andreev billiard was realized in an array of niobium filled antidots in a high-mobility InAs/AlGaSb heterostructure. Below the critical temperature T_C of the Nb dots we observe a strong reduction of the resistance around B=0 and a suppression of the commensurability peaks, which are usually found in antidot lattices. Both effects can be explained in a classical Kubo approach by considering the trajectories of charge carriers in the semiconductor, when Andreev reflection at the semiconductor-superconductor interface is included. For perfect Andreev reflection, we expect a complete suppression of the commensurability features, even though motion at finite B is chaotic.

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