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Observation of supercurrent enhancement in SNS junctions by non-equilibrium injection into supercurrent carrying bound Andreev states

Jonatan Kutchinsky, Rafael Taboryski, Claus B. Sorensen, Jorn Bindslev Hansen, Poul Erik Lindelof

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9907489

Abstract

We report for the first time enhancement of the supercurrent by means of injection in a mesoscopic three terminal planar SNSNS device made of Al on GaAs. When a current is injected from one of the superconducting Al electrodes at an injection bias V=Δ(T)/e, the DC Josephson current between the other two superconducting electrodes has a maximum, giving evidence for an enhancement due to a non-equilibrium injection into bound Andreev states of the underlying semiconductor. The effect persists to temperatures where the equilibrium supercurrent has vanished.

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