Universal Properties of Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Secondary "Smile" Gap

The energy levels of a quasi-continuous spectrum in mesoscopic systems fluctuate in positions, and the distribution of the fluctuations reveals information about the microscopic nature of the structure under consideration. Here, we investigate mesoscopic fluctuations of the secondary "smile" gap, that appears in the quasiclassical spectrum of a chaotic cavity coupled to one or more superconductors. Utilizing a random matrix model, we compute numerically the energies of Andreev levels and access the distribution of the gap widths. We mostly concentrate on the universal regime E_Th ≫Δ with E_Th being the Thouless energy of the cavity and Δ being the superconducting gap. We find that the distribution is determined by an intermediate energy scale Δ_g with the value between the level spacing in the cavity δ_s and the quasiclassical value of the gap E_g. From our numerics we extrapolate the first two cumulants of the gap distribution in the limit of large level and channel number. We find that the scaled distribution in this regime is the Tracy-Widom distribution: the same as found by Vavilov at al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{86}, 874 (2001)] for the distribution of the minigap edge in the opposite limit E_Th ≪Δ . This leads us to the conclusion that the distribution found is a universal property of chaotic proximity systems at the edge of a continuous spectrum.

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energy levels, mesoscopic fluctuations, "smile" gap

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REUTLINGER, Johannes, Leonid I. GLAZMAN, Yuli V. NAZAROV, Wolfgang BELZIG, 2021. Universal Properties of Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Secondary "Smile" Gap

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@unpublished{Reutlinger2021-09-07T12:44:16ZUnive-54837,
  year={2021},
  title={Universal Properties of Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Secondary "Smile" Gap},
  author={Reutlinger, Johannes and Glazman, Leonid I. and Nazarov, Yuli V. and Belzig, Wolfgang}
}

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