Abstract
Low temperature transport measurements have been performed on nanofabricated Au wires a few μm long contacting two Nb electrodes whose superconducting phase difference was externally controlled. was generated by passing a known supercurrent through a series array of Josephson junctions. The conductance of the Au wire displays a component in with period . These conductance oscillations arise from the change in scattering boundary conditions of quasiparticles in the Au wire at the Au-Nb interfaces due to Andreev reflection.
- Received 29 March 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1416
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