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A long phase coherent normal (N) wire between superconductors (S) is characterized by a dense phase dependent Andreev spectrum. We investigate the current response of Andreev states of an NS ring to a time dependent Aharonov Bohm flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Meydi Ferrier , Bastien Dassonneville , Sophie Gueron , Helene Bouchiat

We design and investigate an experimental system capable of entering an electron transport blockade regime in which a spin-triplet localized in the path of current is forbidden from entering a spin-singlet superconductor. To stabilize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Po Zhang , Hao Wu , Jun Chen , Sabbir A. Khan , Peter Krogstrup , David Pekker , Sergey M. Frolov

We study the emergent band topology of subgap Andreev bound states in the three-terminal Josephson junctions. We scrutinize the symmetry constraints of the scattering matrix in the normal region connecting superconducting leads that enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Hong-Yi Xie , Maxim G. Vavilov , Alex Levchenko

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 transient phenomena appearing in a subgap region of the double quantum dot coupled in series between the superconducting and normal metallic leads, focusing on the development of the superconducting proximity effect. For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 R. Taranko , K. Wrześniewski , B. Baran , I. Weymann , T. Domański

Fermi-Dirac statistics has been utilized by introducing the average ionization energy ($E_I$) as an additional anomalous energy gap in order to derive the two-dimensional concentration of charge carriers and the phenomenological resistivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Das Arulsamy

We investigate the properties of subharmonic gap structure (SGS) in superconducting quantum contacts with normal-electron resonances. We find two distinct new features of the SGS in resonant junctions which distinguish them from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Johansson , E. N. Bratus , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

Wave functions of low-energy quasiparticle subgap states in d-wave superconducting rings, threaded by Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux, are found analytically. The respective energies are closest to the midgap position at small magnetic fluxes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. S. Barash

Based on a two-orbit four-band tight binding model, we investigate the low-lying electronic states around the interstitial excess Fe ions in the iron-based superconductors by using T-matrix approach. It is shown that the local density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Degang Zhang

Excellent fits of the tunneling density of states in disordered superconductors can be often achieved making use of the phenomenological Dynes formula. However, no consistent derivation of this formula has been available so far. The Dynes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-12 Frantisek Herman , Richard Hlubina

We contribute an extension of large-deviation results obtained in [N.J.B. Aza, J.-B. Bru, W. de Siqueira Pedra, A. Ratsimanetrimanana, J. Math. Pures Appl. 125 (2019) 209] on conductivity theory at atomic scale of free lattice fermions in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , A. Ratsimanetrimanana

We analyze the subgap spectrum and transport properties of the quantum dot embedded between one superconducting and another metallic reservoirs and additionally coupled to an external boson mode. Emission/absorption of the bosonic quanta…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-24 J. Baranski , T. Domanski

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

Motivated by the experimental observation that superconductivity in bulk doped SrTiO$_{3}$ is enhanced as a putative ferroelectric quantum critical point (FE-QCP) is approached, we study the pairing instability of a cubic system in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-06 Maria N. Gastiasoro , Thaís V. Trevisan , Rafael M. Fernandes

We propose a new method to measure the coherence time of superconducting phase qubits based on the analysis of the magnetic-field dependent dc nonlinear Andreev current across a high-resistance tunnel contact between the qubit and a dirty…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail V. Feigel'man , Lev B. Ioffe , Vadim B. Geshkenbein , Gianni Blatter

Although the diamagnetism is of the essence in the superconducting phenomena, small enough topological (or unconventional) superconductors are paramagnetic. By solving the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation and the Maxwell equation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-19 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yasuhiro Asano

The topological properties of a multiband topological superconductor in two dimensions are studied, when the latter is obtained by introducing electron pairing in an otherwise topological insulator. The type of pairing, doping and Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana C. Silva , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Pedro D. Sacramento

We present a real-time diagrammatic theory for transport through interacting quantum dots tunnel coupled to normal and superconducting leads. Our formulation describes both the equilibrium and non-equilibrium superconducting proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-05 Michele Governale , Marco G. Pala , Jürgen König

We review properties of open chaotic mesoscopic systems with a finite Ehrenfest time tau_E. The Ehrenfest time separates a short-time regime of the quantum dynamics, where wave packets closely follow the deterministic classical motion, from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Schomerus , Philippe Jacquod

In this work, it is considered a nanostructure composed by a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnets and a superconductor. The transport properties of this system are studied within a generalized mean-field approximation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 E. C. Siqueira , P. A. Orellana , A. C. Seridonio , R. C. Cestari , M. S. Figueira , G. G. Cabrera