{
  "id": "cond-mat/0501477",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-01-20T04:07:41.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-04-18T15:22:06.000Z",
  "title": "Thermal conductance of Andreev interferometers",
  "authors": [
    "Z. Jiang",
    "V. Chandrasekhar"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "PRL 94, 147002 (2005)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.147002",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the thermal conductance $G^T$ of diffusive Andreev interferometers, which are hybrid loops with one superconducting arm and one normal-metal arm. The presence of the superconductor suppresses $G^T$; however, unlike a conventional superconductor, $G^T/G^T_N$ does not vanish as the temperature $T\\to0$, but saturates at a finite value that depends on the resistance of the normal-superconducting interfaces, and their distance from the path of the temperature gradient. The reduction of $G^T$ is determined primarily by the suppression of the density of states in the proximity-coupled normal metal along the path of the temperature gradient. $G^T$ is also a strongly nonlinear function of the thermal current, as found in recent experiments.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-04-18T15:22:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "thermal conductance",
      "temperature gradient",
      "normal-metal arm",
      "superconductor suppresses",
      "thermal current"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}