Thermopower oscillation symmetries in a double-loop Andreev interferometer

✍ Scribed by P. Cadden-Zimansky; Z. Jiang; V. Chandrasekhar

• Book ID: 104084729
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 681 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1386-9477
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2007.05.023

✦ Synopsis

Andreev interferometers, normal metal wires coupled to superconducting loops, display phase coherent changes as the magnetic flux through the superconducting loops is altered. Properties such as the electronic and thermal conductance of these devices have been shown to oscillate symmetrically about zero flux with a period equal to one superconducting flux quantum, F 0 ¼ h=2e. However, the thermopower of these devices can oscillate symmetrically or antisymmetrically depending on the geometry of the sample, a phenomenon not well understood theoretically. Here we report on thermopower measurements of a double-loop Andreev interferometer where two Josephson currents in the normal metal wire may be controlled independently. The amplitude and symmetries of the observed thermopower oscillations may help to illuminate the unexplained dependence of oscillation symmetry on sample geometry.