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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 103, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.155407
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资金
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [FIS2017-84057-P]
- ERC Consolidator Grant AbsoluteSpin [681164]
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST)
- DFG [SFB 767, RA 2810/1]
- Mercator Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [SFB 767]
- European Research Council (ERC) [681164] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Recent experiments have demonstrated tunneling between YSR bound states at the atomic scale, allowing for the study of spin-dependent transport. A comprehensive theoretical study based on an Anderson model and nonequilibrium Green's function techniques has been presented to describe spin-dependent transport for an arbitrary strength of tunnel coupling. This theory can explain experimental observations of current peaks in the subgap region and predicts a variety of Andreev reflections in junctions with increasing transparency.
Very recent experiments have reported the tunneling between Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states at the atomic scale. These experiments have been realized with the help of a scanning tunneling microscope where a superconducting tip is functionalized with a magnetic impurity and is used to probe another magnetic impurity deposited on a superconducting substrate. In this way it has become possible to study for the first time the spin-dependent transport between individual superconducting bound states. Motivated by these experiments, we present here a comprehensive theoretical study of the tunneling processes between YSR bound states in a system in which two magnetic impurities are coupled to superconducting leads. Our theory is based on a combination of an Anderson model with broken spin degeneracy to describe the impurities and nonequilibrium Green's function techniques to compute the current-voltage characteristics. This combination allows us to describe the spin-dependent transport for an arbitrary strength of the tunnel coupling between the impurities. We first focus on the tunnel regime and show that our theory naturally explains the experimental observations of the appearance of current peaks in the subgap region due to both the direct and thermal tunneling between the YSR states in both impurities. Then, we study in detail the case of junctions with increasing transparency, which has not been experimentally explored yet, and predict the occurrence of a large variety of (multiple) Andreev reflections mediated by YSR states that give rise to a very rich structure in the subgap current. In particular, we predict the occurrence of multiple Andreev reflections that involve YSR states in different impurities. These processes have no analog in single-impurity junctions, and they are manifested as current peaks with negative differential conductance for subgap voltages. Overall, our work illustrates the unique physics that emerges when the spin degree of freedom is added to a system with superconducting bound states.
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