Asymmetry and nonlinearity of current-bias characteristics in superfluid-normal state junctions of weakly-interacting Bose gases

Abstract

We uncover current-bias characteristics of superfluid-normal state junctions with weakly-interacting Bose gases. It is shown that in the presence of a chemical potential bias the characteristics can strongly be asymmetric for origin. The salient feature that is absent in the fermionic counterpart arises from a tunneling process associated with a condensate and a bosonic Andreev reflection process. It turns out that such processes are intrinsically nonlinear and therefore do not obey Ohm's law even at a low bias. In addition, the remaining processes are found to obey Ohm's law and become dominant for transport driven by a temperature bias.

arXiv comment5 pages, 1 figure, 7 pages supplementary

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