Thermal transport in superconductorormal-metal structures

摘要

We review experiments over the last ten years on thermal transport in mesoscopic normal metalsin contact with a superconductor. The main focus of this effort has been on the exploration ofcoherent thermal effects in mesoscopic normal-metal/superconductor structures, i.e. effects inwhich the phase of the quasiparticles participating in thermal transport is important. Coherencein thermal transport manifests itself as oscillations of the thermal conductance and thethermopower of mesoscopic devices with an externally applied magnetic field.