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We study the density of states (DOS) in diffusive superconductors with pointlike magnetic impurities of arbitrary strength described by the Poissonian statistics. The mean-field theory predicts a nontrivial structure of the DOS with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-26 Yakov V. Fominov , Mikhail A. Skvortsov

We investigate the proximity effect in junctions between $N=3$ superconductors under commensurate voltage bias. The bias is chosen to highlight the role of transport processes that exchange multiple Cooper pairs coherently between more than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Ciprian Padurariu , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Denis Feinberg

We examine the effects of a phenomenological pseudogap on the T=0 K phase diagram of a high temperature superconductor within a self-consistent model which exhibits a d-wave pairing symmetry. At the mean-field level the presence of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schmidt , J. J. Rodriguez-Nunez , I. Tifrea

We study the density of states (DOS) inside superconducting Josephson SIsFS junctions with complex interlayer consisting of a thin superconducting spacer 's' between insulator I and a ferromagnetic metal F. The consideration is focused on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-11 S. V. Bakurskiy , A. A. Neilo , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We theoretically study the local density of states in superconducting proximity structure where two superconducting terminals are attached to a side surface of a normal-metal wire. Using the quasiclassical Green's function method, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Alexander A. Golubov , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

We use novel STM techniques in concert to study the doping dependence of electronic structure in Bi-2212. At all dopings, the low energy states are relatively homogenous except for dispersive density-of-states modulations whose properties…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 K. McElroy , D. -H. Lee , J. E. Hoffman , K. M Lang , E. W. Hudson , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J. Lee , J. C. Davis

Recent experiments on the proximity induced supercurrent in mesoscopic normal wires revealed a surprising temperature dependence. They suggest clean-limit behavior although the wires are strongly disordered. We demonstrate that this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Frank K. Wilhelm , Andrei D. Zaikin , Gerd Schoen

We revise the problem of the density of states in disordered superconductors. Randomness of local sample characteristics translates to the quenched spatial inhomogeneity of the spectral gap, smearing the BCS coherence peak. We show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-16 M. A. Skvortsov , M. V. Feigel'man

The quasiparticle local density of states (LDOS) is studied in clean NS and SNS junctions with increasing transverse size, from quasi-one-dimensional to three-dimensional. It is shown that finite transverse dimensions are related to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Blaauboer , R. T. W. Koperdraad , A. Lodder , D. Lenstra

Unconventional superconductors have been long sought for their potential applications in quantum technologies and devices. A key challenge impeding this effort is the difficulty associated with probing and characterizing candidate materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Jonathan B. Curtis , Nicholas R. Poniatowski , Amir Yacoby , Prineha Narang

We study a two-dimensional model of an isolated narrow topological band at partial filling with local attractive interactions. Numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo calculations show that the ground state is a superconductor with a critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Johannes S. Hofmann , Erez Berg , Debanjan Chowdhury

Localization lengths of superconducting quasiparticles $\lambda_s$ are evaluated and compared with the corresponding normal state values $\lambda_n$ in one and two dimensional lattices. The effect of superconducting correlation on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tao Xiang

We apply density functional theory, in the local density approximation, to a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas in order to quantify the effect of Coulomb and correlation effects in modulating, and therefore patterning, the charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 E. T. Owen , C. H. W. Barnes

An isolated single vortex is considered within the framework of the quasiclassical theory. The local density of states around a vortex is calculated in a clean type II superconductor with an anisotropy. The anisotropy of a superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Hayashi , M. Ichioka , K. Machida

We investigate numerically the local density of states (LDOS) in the vicinity of a vortex core in a ferromagnetic superconductor. Specifically, we investigate how the LDOS is affected by the relative weight of the spin bands in terms of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø

The results of calculations of the spatially-resolved density of states (DoS) in an S(F/N) bilayer are presented (S is a superconductor, F is a metallic ferromagnet, N is a normal metal) within quasiclassical theory in the dirty limit.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , M. Siegel

We study the electronic density of states in a mesoscopic superconductor near a transparent interface with a ferromagnetic metal. In our tunnel spectroscopy experiment, a substantial density of states is observed at sub-gap energies close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. A. Sillanpaa , T. T. Heikkila , R. K. Lindell , P. J. Hakonen

We study layered systems and heterostructures of s-wave superconductors by means of a suitable generalization of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. In order to reduce the computational effort, we consider an embedding scheme in which a relatively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Francesco Petocchi , Massimo Capone

There have recently been several experiments studying induced superconductivity in semiconducting two-dimensional electron gases that are strongly coupled to thin superconducting layers, as well as probing possible topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Christopher Reeg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera