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We review here a novel circuit theory of superconductivity. The existed circuit theory of Andreev reflection has been revised to account for decoherence between electrons and holes and twofold nature of the distribution function. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuli V. Nazarov

The problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal and a multiband superconductor is addressed. The appropriate matching conditions for the wave function at the interface are established on the basis of an extension of quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-29 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

The energy-dependent Andreev reflection eigenvalues determine the transport properties of normal-superconducting systems. We evaluate the eigenvalue density to get an insight into formation of resonant electron-hole transport channels. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Samuelsson , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

An incoming electron is reflected back as a hole at a normal-metal-superconductor interface, a process known as Andreev reflection. We predict that there exists a universal transverse shift in this process due to the effect of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We simulate a hybrid superconductor-graphene device in the quantum Hall regime to identify the origin of downstream resistance oscillations in a recent experiment [Zhao et. al. Nature Physics 16, (2020)]. In addition to the previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Antonio L. R. Manesco , Ian Matthias Flór , Chun-Xiao Liu , Anton R. Akhmerov

We develop a quasiclassical theory of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes. Provided tunneling interface resistance between one superconducting electrode and the normal metal strongly exceeds two others, significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin , L. S Kuzmin

We study superconducting quantum interference in InSb flake Josephson junctions. An even-odd effect in the amplitude and periodicity of the superconducting quantum interference pattern is found. Interestingly, the occurrence of this pattern…

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

The tunneling spectrum of an electron and a hole in metal-superconductor-metal junctions is computed using the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory. The incident and the outgoing currents finally balance each other by an interface charge inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-20 W. LiMing , J. J. Ouyang , Liangbin Hu

We examine nonlocal effects between normal-metal gold probes connected by superconducting aluminum. For highly transparent Au/Al interfaces, we find nonlocal voltages that obey a spatial and temperature evolution distinct from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Cadden-Zimansky , V. Chandrasekhar

Electrical transport through a normal metal / superconductor contact at biases smaller than the energy gap can occur via the reflection of an electron as a hole of opposite wave vector. The same mechanism of electron-hole reflection gives…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Guy Deutscher

We construct high-quality graphene-based van der Waals devices with narrow superconducting niobium nitride (NbN) electrodes, in which superconductivity and robust fqH coexist. We find crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) across the…

We calculate the density of states of electron-hole excitations in a superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor (SNS) junction in graphene, in the long-junction regime that the superconducting gap is much larger than the Thouless energy. If…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Titov , A. Ossipov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

A normal conductor placed in good contact with a superconductor can inherit its remarkable electronic properties. This proximity effect microscopically originates from the formation in the conductor of entangled electron-hole states, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Landry Bretheau , Joel I-Jan Wang , Riccardo Pisoni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We propose that, if the pseudogap state in the cuprate superconductors can be described in terms of the phase-incoherent preformed pairs, there should exist Andreev reflection from these pairs even above the superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Han-Yong Choi , Yunkyu Bang , David K. Campbell

In this article, we study the transport properties of Graphene-Superconductor-Graphene (GSG) heterojunction where the superconducting region is created in the middle of a graphene sheet, as contrasted to widely studied transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Shahrukh Salim , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

A graphene sheet partially covered with a bulk superconductor serves as a normal conductor--superconductor (NS) junction, in which electron transport is mainly governed by Andreev reflection (AR). As excess carriers induced over the covered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yositake Takane , Katsuhide Yarimizu , Akinobu Kanda

Motivated by recent experiments on low-carrier-density superconductors, including twisted multilayer graphene, we study signatures of the BCS to BEC evolution in Andreev reflection spectroscopy. We establish that in a standard quantum point…

Predictions are established for linear differential current-current cross-correlations dSab/dV in a symmetrically biased three-terminal normal metal-superconductor-normal metal (NSN) device. Highly transparent contacts turn out to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-12 Axel Freyn , Martina Flöser , Régis Mélin