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Admittance of a one-channel conductor containing a scattering region and Andreev reflection in an N-S mesoscopic system

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We introduce local density of states in normal-conductor-superconductor compound systems and injectivity, emissivity to describe the transmission properties in these systems. Then we study the admittance of a one-channel conductor which contains a scattering region and Andreev reflection with the discrete potential model and effective scattering approach.

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  1. Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Zhang Gang, Zhiliang Cao & Binglin Gu

  2. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Zhang Gang, Wenhui Duan & Binglin Gu

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Zhang, G., Cao, Z., Duan, W. et al. Admittance of a one-channel conductor containing a scattering region and Andreev reflection in an N-S mesoscopic system. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 45, 1202–1210 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1360/02ys9131

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