Crossed Andreev reflection and charge imbalance in diffusive normal-superconducting-normal structures.
We formulate a microscopic theory of nonlocal electron transport in three-terminal diffusive normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures with arbitrary interface transmissions. At low energies epsilon, we predict strong enhancement of nonlocal spectral conductance g_{12} proportional, variant1/epsilon due to quantum interference of electrons in disordered N terminals. In contrast, nonlocal resistance R_{12} remains smooth at small epsilon and, furthermore, is found to depend neither on parameters of normal-superconducting interfaces nor on those of N terminals. At higher temperatures, R_{12} exhibits a peak caused by the trade-off between charge imbalance and Andreev reflection. Our results are in a good agreement with recent experimental observations and can be used for quantitative analysis of future experiments.
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Dmitri S
DS
Golubev
Mikhail S
MS
Kalenkov
Andrei D
AD
Zaikin