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Transport across a normal-superconducting interface with coulomb interactions: a novel probe of electron-electron interactions in the normal metal.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2001
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Volume13
Pages (from-to)L147-L152
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In this letter, we examine the effect of Coulomb interactions in the normal region of a normal-superconducting (N/S) mesoscopic structure; here the change from an attractive to a repulsive Coulombic interaction, at the N/S interface, causes a shift in the order parameter phase. We show that this shift has a pronounced effect on the Andreev bound states and demonstrate that the effect on Andreev scattering of non-zero order parameter tails can be used to probe the sign of the interaction in the normal region.