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Andreev reflection at the interface between a ferromagnet and a superconductor has become a foundation of a versatile new technique of measuring the spin polarization of magnetic materials. In this paper we will briefly outline a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 I. I. Mazin , A. A. Golubov , B. Nadgorny

We demonstrate a close relation between Coulomb effects in non-local electron transport and non-local shot noise in three-terminal metallic conductors. Provided the whole structure is normal, cross-correlations in shot noise are negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We use the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory for electronic transport to calculate the current cross-correlations in a voltage-biased three-terminal junction with all superconducting leads. At low bias voltage, when charge transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

Andreev reflection is a smart tool to investigate the spin polarisation P of the current through point contacts between a superconductor and a ferromagnet. We compare different models to extract P from experimental data and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Bouvron , M. Stokmaier , M. Marz , G. Goll

We propose a phenomenological description of electronic transport through a normal metal/superconductor interface of arbitrary transparency, which accounts for the presence of electron-electron interaction in the normal metal. The effect of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Man , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We study the interband transport in a superconducting device composed of graphene with EuO-induced exchange interaction. We show that pure crossed Andreev reflection can be generated exclusively without the parasitic local Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Yee Sin Ang , L. K. Ang , C. Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

We show that noncollinear Andreev reflections can be induced at interfaces of semiconductor nanowires with spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting and proximity-induced superconductivity. In a noncollinear local Andreev reflection, the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-27 B. H. Wu , W. Yi , J. C. Cao , G. -C. Guo

The coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism has brought about the phenomena of ferromagnetic superconductors. The theory needed to understand the compatibility of such antagonistic phenomena cannot be built until the pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-06 Colin Benjamin

Andreev-reflection spectroscopy of elemental superconductors in contact with non-magnetic normal metals reveals that the strength of normal-reflection varies only slightly. This observation imposes strong constrictions on the three possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Gloos , E. Tuuli

Andreev reflection (AR) in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions is an indispensable spectroscopic tool for measuring spin polarization. We study theoretically how the presence of a thin semiconducting interface in such junctions, inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 Andreas Costa , Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

Andreev reflection between a normal metal and a superconductor whose order parameter exhibits quantum phase fluctuations is examined. The approach chosen is non perturbative in the tunneling Hamiltonian and enables to probe the whole range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Devillard , R. Guyon , T. Martin , I. Safi , B. K. Chakraverty

The transport through a metal-superconductor interface is governed by a special charge conversion process, the Andreev reflection, where each incident electron drags another electron with itself to form a Cooper pair. At the normal side a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-25 A. Geresdi , A. Halbritter , G. Mihály

We investigate the Andreev reflection in a normal metal/charge-4e superconductor junction.Compare with the electron-hole conversion in normal charge-2e superconductors, here four electrons participate simultaneously, enriching the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-30 Yi-Xin Dai , Qing-Feng Sun

Coherent charge transport along ballistic paths can be introduced into graphene by Andreev reflection, for which an electron reflects from a superconducting contact as a hole, while a Cooper pair is transmitted. We use a liquid-helium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Bhandari , G. -H. Lee , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , R. M. Westervelt

We study the quantum transport behavior of a normal-superconductor-normal junction based on type-II Weyl semimetal, which is arranged in the tilting direction of the Weyl semimetal. We find that both the crossed Andreev reflection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Xue-Si Li , Shu-Feng Zhang , Xue-Rui Sun , Wei-Jiang Gong

Recently, exciting progress has been made in using the superconducting nanowires coupled to gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) to mimic the Kiteav chain and realize the Majorana-bound states via a poor man's route. The essential ingredient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Zhi-Hai Liu , Chuanchang Zeng , H. Q. Xu

We show that Andreev reflection in a junction between ferromagnetic (F) and superconducting (S) graphene regions is fundamentally different from the common FS junctions. For a weakly doped F graphene with an exchange field $h$ larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Malek Zareyan , Hakimeh Mohammadpour , Ali G. Moghaddam

We calculate the full transport counting statistics in a three-terminal tunnel device with one superconducting source and two normal-metal or ferromagnet drains. We obtain the transport probability distribution from direct Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Jan Petter Morten , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Wolfgang Belzig , Arne Brataas

We study the crossed Andreev reflection and the nonlocal transport in the proximitized graphene/supercondcutor/proximitized graphene junctions with the pseudospin staggered potential and the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. The crossed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-27 Shu-Chang Zhao , Lu Gao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun