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Non-local pairing processes at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor are usually suppressed by helicity. However, additional proximity of a ferromagnetic insulator can substantially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 François Crépin , Pablo Burset , Björn Trauzettel

Crossed Andreev reflection (cAR) is a scattering process that happens in a quantum transport set-up consisting of two normal metals (NM) attached to a superconductor (SC), where an electron incident from one NM results in a hole emerging in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Abhiram Soori , Subroto Mukerjee

Crossed Andreev reflection in a lateral spin valve geometry device is an aspect of considerable recent interest, particularly with regards to Cooper pair splitting experiments to realize solid state quantum entanglement. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-29 James Luke Webb , Bryan Hickey , Gavin Burnell

We show that noncollinear Andreev reflections can be induced at interfaces of semiconductor nanowires with spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting and proximity-induced superconductivity. In a noncollinear local Andreev reflection, the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-27 B. H. Wu , W. Yi , J. C. Cao , G. -C. Guo

We investigate a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) based on carbon nanotubes in a fork geometry [J.-P. Cleuziou {\it et al.}, Nature Nanotechnology {\bf 1}, 53 (2006)], involving tunneling of evanescent quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-29 S. Duhot , R. Mélin

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is an intriguing effect that occurs in a normal-superconductor-normal junction. In CAR, an incoming electron from one terminal is coherently scattered as an outgoing hole into the other terminal. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Jie Liu , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a nonlocal transport phenomenon that creates/detects Cooper-pair correlations between distant places. It is also the basis of Cooper-pair splitting to generate remote entanglement. Although CAR has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Junya Feng , Henry F. Legg , Mahasweta Bagchi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja , Yoichi Ando

We investigate local and nonlocal entanglement of particle pairs induced by direct and crossed Andreev reflections at the interfaces between a superconductor and two normal conductors. It is shown theoretically that both local and nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhao Yang Zeng , Liling Zhou , Jongbae Hong , Baowen Li

Nonlocal charge correlations induced in two normal metals contacted separately to a supercon- ductor have been studied intensively in the past few years. Here we investigate nonlocal correlations induced by the transfer of pure spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Taewan Noh , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Motivated by recent experiments on nonlocal transport through multiterminal superconducting hybrid structures, we present self-consistent calculations based on quasiclassical Green's functions for the order parameter, currents and voltages…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati

We study the interacting quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads by means of a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method in the Keldysh-Nambu formalism. Deducing the steady current through the quantum dot under a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-10 Akihisa Koga

The formation of a topological superconducting phase in a quantum-dot-based Kitaev chain requires nearest neighbor crossed Andreev reflection and elastic co-tunneling. Here we report on a hybrid InSb nanowire in a three-site Kitaev chain…

We predict strong non-local effects in the three-terminal hybrid device, comprising the quantum dot embedded between two conducting leads and third superconducting reservoir. They result from competition between the ballistic electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 G. Michalek , T. Domanski , B. R. Bulka , K. I. Wysokinski

We implement self-consistent microscopic calculations in order to describe out-of-equilibrium non-local transport in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal hybrid structures in the presence of a magnetic field and for arbitrary interface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-03 R. Mélin , F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati

We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We consider a Hamiltonian model for a quantum dot which is placed between two superconducting leads with a constant bias imposed between these leads. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh technique, we focus on the subgap current, where it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , Alex Zazunov , K. Bayandin , Vitaly Shumeiko , Thierry Martin

The electron transport properties of a four-terminal molecular device are computed within the framework of density functional theory and non-equilibrium Keldysh theory. The additional two terminals lead to new properties, including a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

The proximity effect in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures, crucial for realizing Majorana edge modes, is complicated to control due to its dependence on many unknown microscopic parameters. In addition, defects can spoil the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 T. Ö. Rosdahl , A. Vuik , M. Kjaergaard , A. R. Akhmerov

We study electron transport through a normal lead-quantum dot-topological superconductor-quantum dot-normal lead (N-QD-TS-QD-N) junction. Due to the non-local nature of Majorana fermions (MFs) in the topological superconductor, there are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Jie Liu , Jian Wang , Fu-chun Zhang

We argue that the interpretation of the experiment [Nature Physics 21, 708-715 (2025)] is misleading in two respects. First, the bias voltages impact the non-local differential conductance randomly, rather than systematically, and the bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 E. S. Tikhonov , V. S. Khrapai