1997/11/21 by Alexander Altland, A. Altland, B. D. Simons +3 · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Organic and Molecular Conductors Research #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1134/1.567622
4 pages, REVTEX, two eps-figures included; submitted to JETP letters
arxiv created 1997/11/21 · openalex publication_date 1998/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The thermodynamic and transport properties of normal disordered conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor. A cooperation between mesoscopic coherence and Andreev scattering of particles from the superconductor generates new types of interference phenomena. A field theoretic approach is introduced which is capable of exploring both the averaged properties and mesoscopic fluctuations of superconductor/normal-metal systems. As an example the method is applied to the study of the level statistics of a SNS junction.