Ballistic graphene Josephson junctions from the short to the long regime


Abstract in English

We investigate the critical current, $I_C$, of ballistic Josephson junctions made of encapsulated graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures. We observe a crossover from the short to the long junction regimes as the length of the device increases. In long ballistic junctions, $I_S$ is found to scale as $propto exp(-k_bT/delta E)$. The extracted energies $delta E$ are independent of the carrier density and proportional to the level spacing of the ballistic cavity, as determined from Fabry-Perot oscillations of the junction normal resistance. As $Trightarrow 0$ the critical current of a long (or short) junction saturates at a level determined by the product of $delta E$ (or $Delta$) and the number of the junctions transversal modes.

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