Sample-Specific Conductance Fluctuations Modulated by the Superconducting Phase
- 10 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (24) , 4592-4595
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.4592
Abstract
We have studied sample-specific conductance fluctuations tuned by the phase difference between superconducting boundaries, using a two-dimensional electron gas as the phase-coherent normal conductor. In low magnetic fields, periodic conductance oscillations due to phase-conjugated Andreev reflections are observed with an amplitude at . These oscillations are suppressed by a flux of approximately through the interference region. For larger magnetic fields, sample-specific conductance oscillations are found with . No indication is found for an intrinsic periodic superconductor-modified weak localization contribution.
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