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We study theoretically the behavior of thermal massless Dirac fermions inside graphene-based Ferromagnetic/Insulator/d-wave (s-wave) superconductor (F/I/d and F/I/S) junctions in the ballistic regime. Using the Dirac-BdG wave functions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-02 Morteza Salehi , Mohammad Alidoust , Gholamreza Rashedi

The interplay of geometrical and Andreev quantization in mesoscopic superconductors leads to giant mesoscopic oscillations of energy levels as functions of the Fermi momentum and/or sample size. Quantization rules are formulated for closed…

The unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is one of the most outstanding problems of condensed matter physics. Thermal transport provides a detection tool that is sensitive to these chargeless quasiparticles. We study…

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Thermoelectric transport coefficients are determined for semiconductor quantum wires with weak thickness fluctuations. Such systems exhibit anomalies in conductance near 1/4 and 3/4 of 2e^2/h on the rising edge to the first conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Rejec , A. Ramsak , J. H. Jefferson

Thermal and charge transport in the diffusive normal metal(DN) / insulator / $s$-, $d$- and p-wave superconductor junctions are studied for various situations, where we have used the Usadel equation with Nazarov's generalized boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov , Y. Asano

We calculate the thermal conductivity of interacting electrons in disordered metals. In our analysis we point out that the interaction affects thermal transport through two distinct mechanims, associated with quantum interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Savona , Peter Schwab , Thomas Lueck

Using an approach based on quasiclassical Green's functions we present a theoretical study of transport in mesoscopic S/N structures in the diffusive limit. The subgap conductance in S/N structures with barriers (zero bias and finite bias…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. F. Volkov , V. V. Pavlovskii , R. Seviour

We present the theory of thermoelectric transport in metals with long-lived quasiparticles, carefully addressing the interplay of electron-electron scattering as well as electron-impurity scattering, but neglecting electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-27 Andrew Lucas , Sankar Das Sarma

A novel formal equivalence between thermal averages of coherent properties (e.g. conductance), and time averages of a single wavepacket arises for Fermi gasses and certain geometries. In the case of one open channel in a quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. J. Heller , K. E. Aidala , B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , A. Kalben , R. M. Westervelt , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

The thermopower of mesoscopic normal metal/superconductor structures has been measured at low temperatures. Effect of supercurrent present in normal part of the structure was studied in two cases: when it was created by applied external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zou , I. Sosnin , P. Virtanen , M. Meschke , V. T. Petrashov , T. T. Heikkila

Phase-coherent diffusive transport through mesoscopic hybrid superconductor/normal metal tunneling structures is investigated. For a N-s-S two-barrier tunneling system with bulk S and N electrodes coupled by a mesoscopic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-25 A. V. Zaitsev , A. F. Volkov , S. W. D. Bailey , C. J. Lambert

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted immense interest because they host helical surface states. Protected by time-reversal symmetry, they are robust to non-magnetic disorder. When superconductivity is induced in these helical states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 A. D. K. Finck , C. Kurter , Y. S. Hor , D. J. Van Harlingen

The dissipative component of electron transport through the doubly connected SNS Andreev interferometer indium (S)-aluminium (N)-indium (S) has been studied. Within helium temperature range, the conductance of the individual sections of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Chiang , O. G. Shevchenko

We review the mesoscopic transport in a diffusive proximity superconductor made of a normal metal (N) in metallic contact with a superconductor (S). The Andreev reflection of electrons on the N-S interface is responsible for the diffusion…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Courtois , Ph. Gandit , B. Pannetier , D. Mailly

We investigate the electrical conductivity and thermoelectric effects in topological crystalline insulators in the presence of short- and long-range impurity interactions. We employ the generalized Boltzmann formalism for anisotropic Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Babak Zare Rameshti , Reza Asgari

We present an experimental study of the diffusive transport in a normal metal near a superconducting interface, showing the re-entrance of the metallic conductance at very low temperature. This new mesoscopic regime comes in when the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Charlat , H. Courtois , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , A. F. Volkov , B. Pannetier

We have investigated transport through graphene Andreev interferometers exhibiting reentrance of the superconducting proximity effect. We observed a crossover in the Andreev conductance oscillations as a function of gate voltage ($V_{BG}$).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Fabio Deon , Sandra Šopić , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We present analytic and numerical results for the thermoelectric effect in unconventional superconductors with a dilute random distribution of impurities, each scattering isotropically but with a phase shift intermediate between the Born…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Lofwander , Mikael Fogelstrom