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We investigate the thermoelectric current and heat conductance in a chiral Josephson contact on a surface of a 3D topological insulator, covered with superconducting and magnetic insulator films. The contact consists of two junctions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Dmitriy S. Shapiro , D. E. Feldman , Alexander D. Mirlin , Alexander Shnirman

Low-temperature (down to $\sim$ 50 mK) thermal conductivity measurements with the heat flow direction along the inter-plane tetragonal $c$-axis, $\kappa_c$, were used to study the superconducting state of heavy fermion CeIrIn$_5$.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-14 H. Shakeripour , M. A. Tanatar , C. Petrovic , Louis Taillefer , Louis Taillefer

We discuss how phase coherence manifests in the heat transport through superconducting single and multichannel Josephson junctions in time dependent situations. We consider the heat current driven through the junction by a temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-02 P. Virtanen , F. Giazotto

We investigated the transient photoconductivity of graphene at various gate-tuned carrier densities by optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. We demonstrated that graphene exhibits semiconducting positive photoconductivity near zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , Y. C. Shin , J. Kong , N. Gedik

We report on the experimental observation of thermoelectric currents in superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions in high magnetic fields. The thermoelectric signals are due to a spin-dependent lifting of particle-hole symmetry, and are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-03 S. Kolenda , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann

In this work, we report on hot carrier diffusion in graphene across large enough length scales that the carriers are not thermalized across the crystal. The carriers are injected into graphene at one site and their thermal transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 A. W. Draelos , A. Silverman , B. Eniwaye , E. G. Arnault , C. T. Ke , M. T. Wei , I. Vlassiouk , I. V. Borzenets , F. Amet , G. Finkelstein

Thermal and charge transport in the diffusive normal metal(DN) / insulator / $s$-, $d$- and p-wave superconductor junctions are studied for various situations, where we have used the Usadel equation with Nazarov's generalized boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov , Y. Asano

Electron transport through [normal metal]-[quantum dot]-[topological superconductor] junction is studied and reveals interlacing physics of Kondo correlations with two Majorana fermions bound state residing on the opposite edges of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Anatoly Golub , Igor Kuzmenko , Yshai Avishai

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

We investigate phase-coherent thermal transport in Josephson junctions made from unconventional superconductors or superfluids. The thermal conductance is evaluated for one- and two-dimensional junctions within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Alexander G. Bauer , Björn Sothmann

We demonstrate that antiferromagnet-superconductor (AF-S) junctions show qualitatively different transport properties than normal metal-superconductor (N--S) and ferromagnet-superconductor (F-S) junctions. We attribute these transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-30 Martin F. Jakobsen , Kristian B. Naess , Paramita Dutta , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We present an effective hydrodynamic theory of electronic transport in graphene in the interaction-dominated regime. We derive the emergent hydrodynamic description from the microscopic Boltzmann kinetic equation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 U. Briskot , M. Schütt , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

We study a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction in an environment with intrinsic incoherent fluctuations which couple to the junction through an electromagnetic field. When the temperature of the junction differs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-04 Juha Voutilainen , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

The interplay of graphene and superconductivity has attracted great interest for understanding the two-dimensional Dirac Fermion physics and for superconducting device applications. In previous work, graphene-superconductor junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Naomi Mizuno , Bent Nielsen , Xu Du

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions through gapped graphene through a magnetic barrier irradiated by a laser field oscillating in time. We use Floquet theory and the solution of Weber's differential equation to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

Fermionic superfluid junctions typically exhibit suppressed thermal and spin transport due to the presence of a pairing gap but allow coherent particle transport. While dissipation generally weakens coherent transport, it can also induce…

We have calculated the temperature dependence of the conductance variation ($\delta S(T)$) of mesoscopic superconductor normal metal(S/N) structures, in the diffusive regime, analysing both weak and strong proximity effects. We show that in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Seviour , C. J. Lambert , A. F. Volkov

Within the t-J model, the heat transport of the underdoped cuprates is studied based on the fermion-spin theory. It is shown that at low temperatures the energy dependence of the thermal conductivity spectrum consists of two bands. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Tianxing Ma , Shiping Feng

From the solution of a two-band model, we predict that the thermal and electrical transport across the junction of a semimetal and an excitonic insulator will exhibit high resistance behavior and low entropy production at low temperatures,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Rontani , L. J. Sham