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Geometry effects in the magnetoconductance of normal and Andreev Sinai billiards

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We study the transport properties of low-energy (quasi)particles ballistically traversing normal and Andreev two-dimensional open cavities with a Sinai-billiard shape. We consider four different geometrical setups and focus on the dependence of transport on the strength of an applied magnetic field. By solving the classical equations of motion for each setup we calculate the magnetoconductance in terms of transmission and reflection coefficients for both the normal and Andreev versions of the billiard, calculating in the latter the critical field value above which the outgoing current of holes becomes zero.

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Fytas, N. Geometry effects in the magnetoconductance of normal and Andreev Sinai billiards. Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 148 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70229-9

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