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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…

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We study the stochastic nature of switching current in hysteretic current-voltage characteristics of superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) junctions. We find that the dispersion of the switching current distribution scales with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 U. C. Coskun , M. Brenner , T. Hymel , V. Vakaryuk , A. Levchenko , A. Bezryadin

We study the low-energy electronic transport across periodic extended defects in graphene. In the continuum low-energy limit, such defects act as infinitesimally thin stripes separating two regions where Dirac Hamiltonian governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 J. N. B. Rodrigues , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Superconductivity is studied for a fermionic system with attractive four-body interaction. Applying a Green function approach, the gap equation is derived. From the solution, the transition temperature is calculated. Under the condition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-12 P. Kleinert

We present an exhaustive study of the coherent heat transport through superconductor-ferromagnet(S-F) Josephson junctions including a spin-filter (I$_{sf}$) tunneling barrier. By using the quasiclassical Keldysh Green's function technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-23 F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

We consider the Zitterbewegung of Dirac electrons in the monolayer graphene as the nonrelativistic analog of the phenomenon predicted by E. Schr\"odinger for the relativistic electrons in the free space. So we show that the Dirac electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

The signatures of topological superconductivity (TSC) in the superconducting materials with topological nontrivial states prompt intensive researches recently. Utilizing high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and…

For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in a graphene-based double-barrier structure composed of two tilted-cone regions separated by a central pristine graphene region. Using the transfer matrix method, we systematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Raggui , O. Habti , A. Kamal , E. B. Choubabi

Metallic atomic junctions pose the ultimate limit to the scaling of electrical contacts. They serve as model systems to probe electrical and thermal transport down to the atomic level as well as quantum effects occurring in one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Nico Mosso , Ute Drechsler , Fabian Menges , Peter Nirmalraj , Siegfried Karg , Heike Riel , Bernd Gotsmann

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

Graphene has a high intrinsic thermal conductivity and a high electron mobility. The thermal conductivity of graphene can be significantly reduced when different carbon isotopes are mixed, which can enhance the performance of thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Eric Whiteway , Michael Hilke

We study the resistivity of three-dimensional semimetals with linear dispersion in the presence of on-site electron-electron interaction. The well-known quadratic temperature dependence of the resistivity of conventional metals is turned…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Niklas Wagner , Sergio Ciuchi , Alessandro Toschi , Björn Trauzettel , Giorgio Sangiovanni

We study the transport properties of a quasi-two-dimensional diffusive normal metal film attached to a superconductor. We demonstrate that the properties of such films can essentially differ from those of quasi-one-dimensional systems: in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank K. Wilhelm , Andrei D. Zaikin , Herve Courtois , .

We examine the nature of the transitions between the normal and the superconducting branches of superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions. We attribute the hysteresis between the switching (superconducting to normal) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. T. Mebrahtu , Yu. V. Bomze , A. I. Smirnov , G. Finkelstein

Thermal conduction was explored and discussed through a combined theoretical and simulation approach in this work. The thermal conductivity k of polycrystalline graphene was calculated by molecular dynamics simulations based on a hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Yanlei Wang , Zhigong Song , Zhiping Xu

We study quantum transport in Dirac materials with a single fermionic Dirac cone (strong topological insulators and graphene in the absence of intervalley coupling) in the presence of non-Gaussian long-range disorder. We show, by directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , M. S. Fuhrer , S. Das Sarma

On the basis of self-consistent Born approximation for Dirac fermions under charged impurity scatterings in graphene, the theory for calculating the thermo-electric power is developed by using the heat current-current correlation function.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 Xin-Zhong Yan , Yousef Romiah , C. S. Ting

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find that the thermoelectric transport has similar properties as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Ma , L. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N Sheng

We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally two limiting factors in cooling electrons using biased tunnel junctions to extract heat from a normal metal into a superconductor. Firstly, when the injection rate of electrons exceeds…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Pekola , T. T. Heikkila , A. M. Savin , J. T. Flyktman , F. Giazotto , F. W. J. Hekking