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We discuss the phase dependent nonlocal thermoelectric effect in a topological Josephson junction in contact with a normal-metal probe. We show that, due to the helical nature of topological edge states, nonlocal thermoelectricity is…

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We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

The dissipative component of electron transport through the doubly connected SNS Andreev interferometer indium (S)-aluminium (N)-indium (S) has been studied. Within helium temperature range, the conductance of the individual sections of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Chiang , O. G. Shevchenko

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations of the thermopower of a quantum dot embedded in a ring for the case when the interaction between electrons can be neglected. The thermopower is shown to be strongly flux dependent, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ya. M. Blanter , C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

We demonstrate that phase-dependent heat currents through superconductor-topological insulator Josephson junctions provide a useful tool to probe the existence of topological Andreev bound states, even for multi-channel surface states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Björn Sothmann , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We show that when non-unitary noise effects are taken into account the thermopower is in general asymmetric under magnetic field reversal, even for non-interacting systems. Our findings are illustrated in the example of a three-dot ring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-16 Keiji Saito , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Tomaz Prosen

We theoretically describe a thermoelectric effect that is entirely due to Andreev processes involving the formation of Cooper pairs through the coupling of electrons and holes. The Andreev thermoelectric effect can occur in ballistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-25 Tony Savander , Shun Tamura , Christian Flindt , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

The thermopower of superconductors measured via the magnetic flux in bimetallic loop is evaluated. It is shown that by a standard matching of the electrostatic potential, known as the Bernoulli potential, one explains the experimentally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Kolacek , Pavel Lipavsky

We theoretically analyzed the Andreev reflection in ferromagnetic metal/nonmagnetic metal/superconductor double junctions with special attention to the electron interference effect in the nonmagnetic metal layer. We showed that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Hiroyuki Ohtori , Hiroshi Imamura

A tunable and balanced heat interferometer is proposed and analyzed. The device consists of two superconductors linked together to form a double-loop interrupted by three Josephson junctions coupled in parallel. Both superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 M. J. Martinez-Perez , F. Giazotto

We identify the different contributions to quantum interference in a mesoscopic metallic loop in contact with two superconducting electrodes. At low temperature, a flux-modulated Josephson coupling is observed with strong damping over the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Courtois , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , B. Pannetier

We theoretically investigate the behavior of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes in the current-biased regime. Our analysis allows to predict a number of interesting features of such devices, such as both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

Employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity combined with Keldysh technique we investigate large thermoelectric effect in multiterminal ballistic normal-superconducting (NS) hybrid structures. We argue that this effect is caused by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Electrons can be reflected at an interface between two metals because of a dielectric barrier or different properties of the Fermi surface. Andreev reflection allows to directly measure normal reflection when one of the metals is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Elina Tuuli , Kurt Gloos

Numerical simulations of conduction through a disordered microbridge between a normal metal and a superconductor have revealed an anomalous insensitivity of the conductance fluctuations to a magnetic field. A theory for the anomaly is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Andreev bound states are fermionic states localized in weak links between superconductors which can be occupied with spinful quasiparticles. Microwave experiments using superconducting circuits with InAs/Al nanowire Josephson junctions have…

I discuss thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead in the presence of Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. I will focus on conductance, thermal conductance, thermopower and related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Mariusz Krawiec

We investigate conductances and current correlations in a system consisting of a normal multichannel conductor connected to one superconducting and two ferromagnetic electrodes. For antiparallel orientation of the ferromagnet polarizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Peter Samuelsson , Markus Buttiker

We investigate nonequilibrium noise in a diffusive Andreev interferometer, in which currents emerging from two Normal metal/Superconductor (N-S) interfaces can interfere. We observe a modulation of the shot noise when the phase difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Reulet , A. A. Kozhevnikov , D. E. Prober , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

The thermopower and conductance of atomic-size metallic contacts have been simultaneously measured using a mechanically controllable break junction. For contacts approaching atomic dimensions, abrupt steps in the thermopower are observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Ludoph , J. M. van Ruitenbeek