Abstract

We discuss an extension of our earlier work on the time-dependent Landauer- Buttiker formalism for noninteracting electronic transport. The formalism can without complication be extended to superconducting central regions since the Green's functions in the Nambu representation satisfy the same equations of motion which, in turn, leads to the same closed expression for the equal-time lesser Green's function, i.e., for the time-dependent reduced one-particle density matrix. We further write the finite-temperature frequency integrals in terms of known special functions thereby considerably speeding up the computation. Simulations in simple normal metal - superconductor - normal metal junctions are also presented.

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Title
Time-dependent Landauer—Büttiker formalism for superconducting junctions at arbitrary temperatures
Author
Tuovinen, Riku 1 ; Robert van Leeuwen 2 ; Perfetto, Enrico 3 ; Stefanucci, Gianluca 4 

 Department of Physics, Nanoscience Center, FIN 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 
 Department of Physics, Nanoscience Center, FIN 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF). 
 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy 
 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy; Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, Italy; European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF). 
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Mar 2016
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2575071887
Copyright
© 2016. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.