Universal properties of mesoscopic fluctuations of the secondary gap in superconducting proximity systems

The energy levels of a quasicontinuous spectrum in mesoscopic systems fluctuate in positions and the distribution of the fluctuations reveals information about the microscopic nature of the structure under consideration. Here, we investigate mesoscopic fluctuations of a secondary gap that appears in the quasiclassical spectrum of a chaotic...

Secondary “smile”-gap in the density of states of a diffusive Josephson junction for a wide range of contact types

The superconducting proximity effect leads to strong modifications of the local density of states in diffusive or chaotic cavity Josephson junctions, which displays a phase-dependent energy gap around the Fermi energy. The so-called minigap of the order of the Thouless energy ETh is related to the inverse dwell time in the diffusive region in...

“Smile” Gap in the Density of States of a Cavity between Superconductors

The density of Andreev levels in a normal metal (N) in contact with two superconductors (S) is known to exhibit an induced minigap related to the inverse dwell time. We predict a small secondary gap just below the superconducting gap edge—a feature that has been overlooked so far in numerous microscopic studies of the density of states in S?N?S...

Resonant Tunneling of Interacting Electrons in a One-Dimensional Wire

Universality of the Kondo effect in a quantum dot out of equilibrium

Suppression of the kondo effect in a quantum dot by external irradiation