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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar
Transport properties of superconductors near critical temperature: conductivity, magneto-tunneling, noise and relaxation
Date: Thursday, October 8th
Time: 10:00 am
Place: 5310 Chamberlin
Speaker: Alex Levchenko, Argonne National Lab
Abstract: We study fluctuation effects on transport properties of superconductors (thin films and tunnel junctions) above the transition temperature. The exact frequency dependence of the electron phase relaxation time due to dynamical superconducting fluctuations is important in this regime. It strongly modifies temperature and magnetic field dependence of conductivity, tunneling conductance and noise. A new energy scale appears as the result of these fluctuation effects, which provides a natural reqularization to Maki-Thompson conductivity and leads to peculiar non-monotonous temperature dependence of tunneling conductance. We make a comparative analysis of diffusive and ballistic regimes in the context of tunneling and go beyond the standard paradigm of density of states related effects. Noise measurement may be a powerful tool for probing superconductive fluctuations, since spectral function of current fluctuations exhibits a distinct feature at the Josephson frequency and its magnitude is strong function of temperature.
Host: Maxim Vavilov
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