Josephson Effect in Graphene： Comparison of Real and Pseudo Vector Potential Barriers.pdfVIP

CHIN．PHYS．LETT．Vo1．31，No．3(2014)037401 Josephson Effectin Graphene：Comparison ofRealand Pseudo Vector PotentialBarriers TatnatchaiSuwannasit，RassmidaraHoonsawat，I-M ingTang ，v，BumnedSoodchomshom DepartmentofPhysics，FacultyofScience，MahidolUniversity,Bangkok 10400，Thailand 2DepartmentofPhysicsIFacultyofScienceKasetsartUniversity,Bangkok10900}Thailand 。DepartmentofM aterialScience FacultyofScience，KasetsartUniversity,Bangkok 10900，Thailand ， (Received15August2013) TheJosephsoncurrentsthroughrealvectorpotential{RvP1andpseudovectorpotential(PVP)barriersin grapheneareinvestigated．Ingraphene，thepseudovectorpotentialmaybecausedbyalocalstrain． e comparisonofsupercurrentsinducedby thetwo[ype-barriersisofcased．Asaresult，wefindthatnotonlywill theRVP induceatransitiondosephson currentfrom the0_÷7rstatebutalsocausesthedifferencein thephases oftheorderparametersofthetwosuperconductinggraphenelayerstoshiftrfom —+2 ．Thecriticalcurrent isPVP-independentaround theneutrality Pointwhileitstrongly dependson the RVP．Thevectorpotential ． dependenceofcriticalcurrent如 ofund tobeperfectiylinearforboth PVP andRVP barriers． PACS：74．50．+r．81．05．ueOZIO．PZ DOI：10．1088／0256—307x／31／3／037401 Sincegraphenewasfirstprepared．【iemergingof eleswith excited energyE may bedescribed bythe pseudo 2D relativisticfermionin grapheneisoneof DiracBogoliubov—deGennes(DBdG)equation2[7,331 theintriguingphenomenainsolidstatesystems．This 1eadsto severalinterestingphenomena likehigh en— 、(＼A‘(，Y)一一日0--(AR)++AASs)))／／ ) ergysystemsanddespitelow energy．【，圳 Electronsin graphenearepseudoDiracfermionswithtwovalleys = ECx(z，)，