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Recently, interest in Superconductor (S)-Normal (N) interfaces was renewed by the observation of exotic proximity effects in various systems, including S/semiconductor, S/ferromagnet, and S/topological insulator. In general, the proximity…

We investigate the formation of edge states in graphene ribbons and flakes with proximity induced valley-Zeeman and Rashba spin-orbit couplings in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field $B$. Two types of edges states appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Yaroslav Zhumagulov , Tobias Frank , Jaroslav Fabian

We have previously shown that a ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructure may possess a spontaneous current circulation parallel to the interface. This current is caused by Andreev bound states in the thin ferromagnetic layer, and can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. F. Annett , M. Krawiec , B. L. Gyorffy

We present a theory of superconducting pairing originating from soft critical fluctuations near isospin-polarized states in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Using a symmetry-based approach, we determine possible isospin order types and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

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 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 consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Ammar A. Kirmani , Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We demonstrate the existence of localized states in close vicinity of a linear defect in graphene. These states have insulating or conducting character. Insulating states form a flat band, while conducting states present a slowdown of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Francesco Romeo

We propose the existence of a substantial charge current parallel to the interface between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a metallic ferromagnet. Our analysis focuses upon two complementary orbital-angular-momentum pairing states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-29 P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm , Andreas P. Schnyder

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the proximity effect due to its role in the realization of topological superconductivity. Here, we study a superconductor--normal metal proximity system with repulsive electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

A graphene superlattice is formed by a one-dimensional periodic potential and is characterized by the emergence of new Dirac points in the electronic structure. The group velocity of graphene's massless Dirac fermions at the new points is…

The Andreev reflection of the normal state-superconductor junction both in monolayer and bilayer graphene with a single magnetic barrier is investigated by means of the Green's function formalism. Within the tight-binding model, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Hengyi Xu , T. Henizel

We study resonant tunneling through a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene as a function of the system parameters. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

The energy bands and the global density of states are computed for superconductor / normal-metal superlattices in the clean limit. Dispersion relations are derived for the general case of insulating interfaces, including the mismatch of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mihajlo Vanevic , Zoran Radovic

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 predict that junctions between an antiferromagnetic insulator and a superconductor provide a robust platform to create a one-dimensional topological superconducting state. Its emergence does not require the presence of intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-10 Senna S. Luntama , Päivi Törmä , Jose L. Lado

Studying the interplay between superconductivity and quantum magnetotransport in two-dimensional materials has been a topic of interest in recent years. Towards such a goal it is important to understand the impact of magnetic field on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Scott Mills , Xu Du

Surface Andreev bound states, including Majorana bound states in topological superconductors, are typically charge neutral. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of unconventional charged Andreev bound states in a superconductor with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Satoshi Ando , Shingo Kobayashi , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

We consider a Josephson junction built with the two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetal, which features a hybrid of linear and quadratic dispersion around a nodal point. We model the weak link between the two superconducting regions by a Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-10 Ipsita Mandal

Recent experiments have shown that proximity with high-temperature superconductors induces unconventional superconducting correlations in graphene. Here we demonstrate that those correlations propagate hundreds of nanometer, allowing for…