Shot noise of the conductance through a superconducting barrier in graphene

Abstract

We investigated the conductance and shot noise properties of quasiparticle-transport through a superconducting barrier in graphene. Based on the Blonder, Tinkham, and Klapwijk (BTK) formulation, the theory to investigate the transport properties in the superconductive graphene is developed. In comparison, we considered the two cases that are the transport in the presence and absence of the specular Andreev reflection. It is shown that the conductance and shot noise exhibit essentially different features in the two cases. It is found that the shot noise is suppressed as a result of more tunneling channels contributing to the transport when the superconducting gate is applied. The dependence of the shot noise behavior on the potential strength and the width of the superconducting barrier differs in the two cases. In the presence of the specular Andreev reflection, the shot noise spectrum is more sensitive to the potential strength and the width of the superconducting barrier. In both of the two cases, total transmission occurs at a certain parameter setting, which contributes greatly to the conductance and suppresses the shot noise at the same time.

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