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Commensurability effects in Andreev antidot billiards
An Andreev billiard was realized in an array of niobium filled antidots in a
high-mobility InAs/AlGaSb heterostructure. Below the critical temperature T_C
of the Nb dots we observe a strong reduction of the resistance around B=0 and a
suppression of the commensurability peaks, which are usually found in antidot
lattices. Both effects can be explained in a classical Kubo approach by
considering the trajectories of charge carriers in the semiconductor, when
Andreev reflection at the semiconductor-superconductor interface is included.
For perfect Andreev reflection, we expect a complete suppression of the
commensurability features, even though motion at finite B is chaotic.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure