Doppler shift in Andreev reflection from a moving superconducting condensate in Nb/InAs Josephson junctions
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F. Rohlfing,1 G. Tkachov,2,* F. Otto,1 K. Richter,2 D. Weiss,1 G. Borghs,3 and C. Strunk1 1Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany 3Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Kapeldreef 75a, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Received 27 February 2009; revised manuscript received 29 July 2009; published 28 December 2009
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