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The Andreev reflection of narrow ferromagnet/superconductor point contacts is theoretically studied. We show that the conductance quantization depends on whether the contact region is superconducting or ferromagnetic as well as on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichirou Kikuchi , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

Andreev bound states are superpositions of electrons and holes in a metal that form by coherent reflection from a superconductor. When the length of the superconductor is comparable to the superconducting coherence length, Andreev bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anders Enevold Dahl , Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Javad Shabani , Karsten Flensberg

In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of the Andreev reflection of quarks at the interface between the 2SC and the Color-Flavor-Locked (CFL) superconductors appeared in QCD at asymptotically high densities. We also give the general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Sadzikowski , Motoi Tachibana

This is a colloquium-style introduction to two electronic processes in a carbon monolayer (graphene), each having an analogue in relativistic quantum mechanics. Both processes couple electron-like and hole-like states, through the action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. W. J. Beenakker

We present a classical and quantum mechanical study of an Andreev billiard with a chaotic normal dot. We demonstrate that in general the classical dynamics of these normal-superconductor hybrid systems is mixed, thereby indicating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kormanyos , Z. Kaufmann , J. Cserti , C. J. Lambert

We study the reflection of electrons and quasiparticles on point-contact interfaces between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and normal metals (leads), as well as interfaces between two FQH states with mismatched filling fractions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

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

We propose a universal method to detect the specular Andreev reflection taking the simple two dimensional Weyl nodal-line semimetal-superconductor double-junction structure as an example. The quasiclassical quantization conditions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study billiards on polytopes in $\Rr^d$ with contracting reflection laws, i.e. non-standard reflection laws that contract the reflection angle towards the normal. We prove that billiards on generic polytopes are uniformly hyperbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Pedro Duarte , José Pedro Gaivão , Mohammad Soufi

We study Andreev conversion in clean nanostructures containing an interface between graphene in the quantum Hall (QH) state and a superconductor, focusing on the lowest Landau level. First, several graphene nanostructures formed from zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Alexey Bondarev , William H. Klein , Harold U. Baranger

We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We study a class of elliptic billiards with a Keplerian potential inside, considering two cases: a reflective one, where the particle reflects elastically on the boundary, and a refractive one, where the particle can cross the billiard's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Vivina L. Barutello , Anna Maria Cherubini , Irene De Blasi

Dirac electrons in graphene have a valley degree of freedom that is being explored as a carrier of information. In that context of "valleytronics" one seeks to coherently manipulate the valley index. Here we show that reflection from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 C. W. J. Beenakker , N. V. Gnezdilov , E. Dresselhaus , V. P. Ostroukh , Y. Herasymenko , I. Adagideli , J. Tworzydlo

Andreev reflection in graphene is special since it can be of two types- retro or specular. Specular Andreev reflection (SAR) dominates when the position of the Fermi energy in graphene is comparable to or smaller than the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhiram Soori , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Anindya Das , Subroto Mukerjee

We present a semi-classical analysis of the opening of superchannels in gated mesoscopic SNS junctions. For perfect junctions (i.e. hard-wall potential), this was considered by Chtchelkatchev, Lesovik and Blatter in the framework of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 A. Bensouissi , N. M'hadbi , M. Rouleux

We present a theory of Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double junction system. The spin polarized quasiparticles penetrate to the superconductor in the range of penetration depth from the interface by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Taro Yamashita , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

Using the highly inhomogeneous fields of a magnetic substrate, tunable junctions between superconducting and normal state regions were created inside a thin film superconductor. The investigation of these junctions, created in the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 J. Fritzsche , R. B. G. Kramer , V. V. Moshchalkov

We study the Andreev reflections and the quantum transport in the proximitized graphene/superconductor junction. The proximitized graphene possesses the pseudospin staggered potential and the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Lu Gao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

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 develop a new theoretical approach for modelling a wide range of semiconductor-superconductor structures with arbitrary potential barriers and a spatially-dependent superconducting order parameter. We demonstrate asymmetry in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-14 Shlomi Bouscher , Roni Winik , Alex Hayat