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Coupling superconductors to quantum Hall edge states is the subject of intense investigation as part of the ongoing search for non-abelian excitations. Our group has previously observed supercurrents of hundreds of picoamperes in graphene…

We study the superconducting correlations induced in graphene when it is placed between two superconductors, focusing in particular on the supercurrents supported by the 2D system. For this purpose we make use of a formalism placing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Gonzalez , E. Perfetto

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

We experimentally investigate transport properties of a single planar junction between the niobium superconductor and the edge of a two-dimensional electron system in a narrow $In_{0.75}Ga_{0.25}As$ quantum well with strong Rashba-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 A. Kononov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , E. V. Deviatov

We show that spin-polarized electron transmission across semiconductor/superconductor (Sm/S) hybrid structures depends sensitively on the degree of spin polarization as well as the strengths of potential and spin-flip scattering at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , S. Das Sarma

We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

The observation of quantum conductance oscillations in mesoscopic systems has traditionally required the confinement of the carriers to a phase space of reduced dimensionality. While electron optics such as lensing and focusing have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Andrea F. Young , Philip Kim

We study Multiple Andreev Reflections in long diffusive superconductor(S)-normal metal(N)-superconductor junctions with low-transparency interfaces. Assuming strong thermalization in the weak link we calculate the current-voltage dependence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-16 A. V. Polkin , P. A. Ioselevich

Self-consistent solutions of microscopic Eilenberger theory are presented for a two-dimensional model of a superconducting channel with a geometric constriction. Magnetic fields, external ones as well as those caused by the supercurrents,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-29 A. Gumann , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

The theory of Andreev conductance is formulated for junctions involving normal metals (N) and multiband superconductors (S) and applied to the case of superconductors with nodeless extended $s_{\pm}$-wave order parameter symmetry, as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman , O. V. Dolgov , I. I. Mazin , Y. Tanaka

We study the quantum transport behavior of a normal-superconductor-normal junction based on type-II Weyl semimetal, which is arranged in the tilting direction of the Weyl semimetal. We find that both the crossed Andreev reflection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Xue-Si Li , Shu-Feng Zhang , Xue-Rui Sun , Wei-Jiang Gong

A scanning tunneling microscope is used to explore the evolution of electron and Cooper pair transport across single Mn-phthalocyanine molecules adsorbed on Pb(111) from tunneling to contact ranges. Normal-metal as well as superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-19 J. Brand , S. Gozdzik , N. Néel , J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. Kröger

Dynamic conductance spectra are taken from Au/CeCoIn$_5$ point contacts in the Sharvin limit along the (001) and (110) directions. Our conductance spectra, reproducibly obtained over wide ranges of temperature, constitute the cleanest data…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Wan Kyu Park , Laura H. Greene , John L. Sarrao , Joe D. Thompson

We analyze non-local effects in electron transport across three-terminal normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures. Subgap electrons entering S-electrode from one N-metal may form Cooper pairs with their counterparts penetrating from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-13 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Klein tunneling is an old topic in relativistic quantum physics, and has been observed recently in graphene where massless particles reside. Here, we propose a new heterostructure platform for Klein tunneling to occur, which consists of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Jiajia Huang , Luyang Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

The state with a spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in a graphene based bilayer quantum Hall system is studied. This state can be considered as a gas of superfluid electron-hole pairs with the components of the pair belonging to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 D. V. Fil , L. Yu. Kravchenko

In this letter we consider Andreev tunneling between a normal metal and a one dimensional Josephson junction array with finite-range Coulomb energy. The $I-V$ characteristics strongly deviate from the classical linear Andreev current. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Falci , Rosario Fazio , A. Tagliacozzo , G. Giaquinta

We theoretically study scattering process and superconducting triplet correlations in a graphene junction comprised of ferromagnet-RSO-superconductor in which RSO stands for a region with Rashba spin orbit interaction. Our results reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Razieh Beiranvand , Hossein Hamzehpour , Mohammad Alidoust

By investigating the nonequilibrium transport across a metal/superconductor junction in both nonrelativistic and relativistic cases, we reveal that the asymmetric Andreev reflection with anisotropic superconductors is able to induce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu