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We study the behavior of a topological Josephson junction in which two topological superconductors are coupled through a quantum dot. We focus on the case with the bulk superconducting gap being the largest energy scale. Two parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-11 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

The autocorrelation function $C_{\varphi,\eps}(\Delta\varphi,\,\Delta \eps)=$ $\langle \delta g(\varphi,\,\eps)\, \delta g(\varphi+\Delta\varphi,\,\eps+\Delta \eps)\rangle$ ($\varphi$ and $\eps$ are rescaled magnetic flux and energy) for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Klaus Frahm

We investigate theoretically the Andreev transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled with a normal metal/ferromagnet and a superconductor (N/F-QD-S), in which the interplay between the Kondo resonance and the Andreev bound states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Lin Li , Zhan Cao , Hong-Gang Luo , Fu-Chun Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen

A distinctive identifier of nodal intrinsic topological superconductivity (ITS) would the appearance of an Andreev bound state on crystal surfaces parallel to the nodal axis, in the form of a topological quasiparticle surface band (QSB)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-24 Shuqiu Wang , J. C. Séamus Davis

We address frequency-dependent quantum transport through mesoscopic conductors in the semiclassical limit. By generalizing the trajectory-based semiclassical theory of dc quantum transport to the ac case, we derive the average screened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-19 Cyril Petitjean , Daniel Waltner , Jack Kuipers , Inanc Adagideli , Klaus Richter

We study the Andreev reflection (AR) in a three terminal mesoscopic hybrid system, in which two ferromagnets (F$_1$ and F$_2$) are coupled to a superconductor (S) through a quantum dot (QD). By using non-equilibrium Green function, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

Particle transport across Josephson junctions is commonly described using a simplifying approximation (often called the Andreev approximation), which assumes that excitations are fixed at the Fermi momentum and only Andreev reflections,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 F. Setiawan , Johannes Hofmann

We present transport measurements in superconductor-nanowire devices with a gated constriction forming a quantum point contact. Zero-bias features in tunneling spectroscopy appear at finite magnetic fields, and oscillate in amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 H. O. H. Churchill , V. Fatemi , K. Grove-Rasmussen , M. T. Deng , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu , C. M. Marcus

We explore superconducting quantum circuits where several leads are simultaneously connected beyond the tunneling regime, such that the fermionic structure of Andreev bound states in the resulting multiterminal Josephson junction influences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 F. J. Matute-Cañadas , L. Tosi , A. Levy Yeyati

The temperature and frequency dependences of the conductivity are derived from optical reflection and transmission measurements of electron doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$ crystals and films. The data is consistent with gap nodes or possibly a very…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Wu , N. Barisic , M. Dressel , G. H. Cao , Z. A. Xu , J. P. Carbotte , E. Schachinger

We theoretically investigate the possibility of lasing in an electromagnetic resonator coupled to a voltage-biased hybrid double quantum dot comprised of a double quantum dot tunnel coupled simultaneously to a normal metal and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei , Neda Jahangiri

In the present work, we investigate the electronic transport through a T-shape double quantum dot system coupled to two normal leads and to one superconducting lead. We explore the interplay between Kondo and Andreev states due to proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 A. M. Calle , M. Pacheco , G. B. Martins , V. M. Apel , G. A. Lara , P. A. Orellana

We measure the excitation spectrum of a superconducting atomic contact. In addition to the usual continuum above the superconducting gap, the single particle excitation spectrum contains discrete, spin-degenerate Andreev levels inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 L. Bretheau , C. O. Girit , C. Urbina , D. Esteve , H. Pothier

A recently developed theory for the problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal (N) and a multiband superconductor (MBS) assumes that the incident wave from the normal metal is coherently transmitted through several bands inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

We develop a theory of tunneling spectroscopy in superconducting topological insulator (STI), i.e. superconducting state of a carrier-doped topological insulator. Based on the quasi-classical approximation, we obtain an analytical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-16 Shota Takami , Keiji Yada , Ai Yamakage , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka

The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , Yu. V. Nazarov

We have used the mechanical motion of a carbon nanotube (CNT) as a probe of the average charge on a quantum dot. Variations of the resonance frequency and the quality factor are determined by the change in average charge on the quantum dot…

The influence of phase shifts of electron waves passing through and reflected by the potential barrier on the Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet/isolator/d-wave superconductor (FIS) contact is studied. It is found that in a superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-13 B. P. Vodopyanov

We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a coupled 2$\times$2 quantum dot array with two-terminals. A striking conductance dip arising from the Fano interference is found as the energy levels of the intermediate dots are mismatched, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Zeng , F. Claro , Alejandro Pérez

In this paper, we investigate the transport through a T-shaped double quantum dot coupled to two normal metal leads left and right and a superconducting lead. Analytical expressions of Andreev transmission and local Density of States of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Calle , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana