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We study non-Gaussian out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations in a mesoscopic NSN circuit at the point of a superconducting phase transition. The setup consists of a voltage-biased thin film nanobridge superconductor (S) connected to two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Levchenko

We theoretically study tunneling of Cooper pairs from an s-wave superconductor into two semiconductor quantum wires with strong spin-orbit interaction under magnetic field, which approximate helical Luttinger liquids. The entanglement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Koji Sato , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

We analyze the nonlinear transport properties of a bilayer exciton condensate that is contacted by four metallic leads by calculating the full counting statistics of electron transport for arbitrary system parameters. Despite its formal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 H. Soller , F. Dolcini , A. Komnik

Crossed Andreev reflection (cAR) is a scattering process that happens in a quantum transport set-up consisting of two normal metals (NM) attached to a superconductor (SC), where an electron incident from one NM results in a hole emerging in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Abhiram Soori , Subroto Mukerjee

We consider the scattering matrix approach to quantum electron transport in meso- and nano-conductors. This approach is an alternative to the more conventional kinetic equation and Green's function approaches, and often is more efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 G. B. Lesovik , I. A. Sadovskyy

Current noise provides useful information on correlations important for transport properties of mesoscopic systems. Of particular interest, both experimentally and theoretically, are heterostructures of normal metals and superconductors. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 W. Belzig , J. Boerlin , C. Bruder , Yu. V. Nazarov

Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Non-linear charge transport in SIS Josephson junctions has a unique signature in the shuttled charge quantum between the two superconductors. In the zero-bias limit Cooper pairs, each with twice the electron charge, carry the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Yuval Ronen , Yonatan Cohen , Jung-Hyun Kang , Arbel Haim , Maria-Theresa Rieder , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Hadas Shtrikman

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

Statistical properties of the electron transport flowing through nanostructures are strongly influenced by the interactions, geometry of the system and/or by type of the external electrodes. These factors affect not only the average current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Grzegorz Michałek , Bogdan R. Bułka , Tadeusz Domański , Karol I. Wysokiński

A theory of crossed Andreev reflection in structures consisting of a superconductor with two ferromagnetic leads is presented. The electric current due to the crossed Andreev reflection strongly depends on the relative orientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Taro Yamashita , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

The tunneling spectrum of an electron and a hole in metal-superconductor-metal junctions is computed using the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory. The incident and the outgoing currents finally balance each other by an interface charge inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-20 W. LiMing , J. J. Ouyang , Liangbin Hu

We investigate theoretically charge transport in hybrid multiterminal junctions with superconducting leads kept at different voltages. It is found that multiple Andreev reflections involving several superconducting leads give rise to rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 M. Houzet , P. Samuelsson

We compute the supersymmetric contributions to the weak charges of the electron and proton in the framework of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We also consider the ratio of neutral current to charged current cross sections, R_nu and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kurylov , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , S. Su

We simulated the radiative response of the cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) coupled to the double quantum dot Cooper pair splitter and analyzed its spectral dependence to get insight into dynamics of the Cooper pair transfers. The model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Bogdan R. Bułka

We discuss very low temperature experiments on superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Normal metal - Insulator - Superconductor junction. We investigate with a high resolution the differential conductance of the micro-cooler as well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Sukumar Rajauria , Philippe Gandit , F. W. J. Hekking , Bernard Pannetier , Hervé Courtois

Andreev scattering and the Josephson current through a one-dimensional interacting electron liquid sandwiched between two superconductors are re-examined. We first present some apparently new results on the non-interacting case by studying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Ian Affleck , Jean-Sebastien Caux , Alexandre Zagoskin

We study the out-of-equilibrium current through an interacting quantum dot modelled as an Anderson impurity contacted by two BCS superconductors held at fixed voltage bias. In order to account for multiple Andreev reflections, we develop a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-26 L. Dell'Anna , A. Zazunov , R. Egger