Elementary Andreev processes in a driven superconductor–normal metal contact
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We investigate the full counting statistics of a voltage driven normal metal(N) superconductor (S) contact. In the low bias regime below the superconducting gap, the NS contact can be mapped onto a purely normal contact, albeit with doubled voltage and counting fields. Hence in this regime the transport characteristics can be obtained by the corresponding substitution of the normal metal results. The elementary processes are single Andreev transfers and electron and hole like Andreev transfers. Considering Lorentzian voltage pulses we find an optimal quantization for half integer Levitons.
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