Gap anisotropy and tunneling currents

N. Lazarides; M. P. Sørensen

doi:10.1016/0378-4754(95)00037-2

Gap anisotropy and tunneling currents

N. Lazarides, M. P. Sørensen

Technical University of Denmark

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Abstract

The tunneling Hamiltonian formalism is applied to calculate the tunneling currents through a small superconducting tunnel junction. The formalism is extended to nonconstant tunneling matrix elements. The electrodes of the junction are assumed to consist of high critical temperature superconductors. They are described by a BCS-type model with anisotropic gap parameter Δ_k, to account for the high anisotropy observed in these materials. The numerical computation of the tunneling currents reveals new qualitative features which could explain many puzzling questions arising from recent experimental results.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	271-280
Number of pages	10
Journal	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Volume	40
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4754(95)00037-2
State	Published - Apr 1996

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