Enhanced Cooper-Pair Injection into a Semiconductor Structure by Resonant Tunneling.

Abstract

We demonstrate enhanced Andreev reflection in a Nb/InGaAs/InP-based superconductor-semiconductor hybrid device resulting in increased Cooper-pair injection efficiency, achieved by Cooper-pair tunneling into a semiconductor quantum well resonant state. We show this enhancement by investigating the differential conductance spectra of two kinds of samples: one exhibiting resonant states and one which does not. We observe resonant features alongside strong enhancement of Cooper pair injection in the resonant sample, and lack of Cooper pair injection in the nonresonant sample. The theoretical modeling for measured spectra by a numerical approach agrees well with the experimental data. Our findings open a wide range of directions in condensed matter physics and in quantum technologies such as superconducting light-emitting diodes and structures supporting exotic excitations.