Alexander Altland, B D Simons, D Taras-Semchuk
Published 1997-11-21Version 1
Thermodynamic and transport properties of normal disordered conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor. A cooperation between mesoscopic coherence and Andreev scattering of particles from the superconductor generates new types of interference phenomena. We introduce a field theoretic approach capable of exploring both averaged properties and mesoscopic fluctuations of superconductor/normal-metal systems. As an example the method is applied to the study of the level statistics of a SNS-junction.
Comments: 4 pages, REVTEX, two eps-figures included; submitted to JETP letters
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