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A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

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Investigating the microscopic details of the proximity effect is crucial for both key experimental applications and fundamental inquiries into nanoscale devices featuring superconducting elements. In this work, we develop a framework…

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We develop a consistent method for calculating non-equilibrium Green's functions for a nano-sized dot coupled to electron reservoirs by tunneling. The leads are generally at different chemical potentials (non-equilibrium), and the dot may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Hoon Han

We propose an approach allowing the computation of currents and their correlations in interacting multiterminal mesoscopic systems involving quantum dots coupled to normal and/or superconducting leads. The formalism relies on the expression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 J. Rech , D. Chevallier , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We study the model of a noninteracting spinless electron gas confined to the two-dimensional localized surface of a cone in the presence of external magnetic fields. The localized region is characterized by an annular radial potential. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a molecular level weakly coupled to a single coherent phonon/vibration mode has been studied for superconducting leads. The Keldysh Green function formalism is used to compute the current for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , C. Mora , T. Martin

We present a microscopic calculation of the nondissipative current through a superconducting quantum point contact coupled to a mechanical oscillator. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green function approach, we determine the current-phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-07 R. Avriller , F. S. Bergeret , F. Pistolesi

The boundary of a 2D topological superconductor can be modeled by a conformal field theory. Here we demonstrate the behaviors of this high level description emerging from a microscopic model at finite temperatures. To achieve that, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-29 Chris N. Self , Jiannis K. Pachos , James R. Wootton , Sofyan Iblisdir

The electronic structure of the superconducting surface sheath in a type-II superconductor in magnetic fields $H_{c2}<H<H_{c3}$ is calculated self-consistently using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We find that the pair potential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert J. Troy , Alan T. Dorsey

Exact analytical formulas are derived, by means of Keldysh Green functions, for currents and current correlation functions in a Cooper pair splitter modelled on a double quantum dot system coherently coupled to a superconductor and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Bogdan R. Bułka

The description of heteropairs like $^{40}$K-$^6$Li near and in the superconducting state requires a fully selfconsistent theory [see Hanai and Ohashi, Phys. Rev. A 90, 043622 (2014)]. We derive analytic pseudogap Green's functions for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-21 P. Lipavský , C. Berthod

The conductance through a mesoscopic system of interacting electrons coupled to two adjacent leads is conventionally derived via the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function technique, in the limit of noninteracting leads [see Y. Meir…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-16 Yuan Li , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

In this paper, we investigate the electronic transport properties of a quantum dot (QD) connected to two ferromagnetic leads and one superconductor lead in the Kondo regime by means of the finite-$U$ slave boson mean field approach and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 C. Lee , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigate the properties of complex mesoscopic superconducting-normal hybrid devices, Andreev-Interferometers in the case, where the current is proped through a superconducting tunneling contact whereas the proximity effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. K. Wilhelm , A. A. Golubov

The emergence of a rectified steady-state supercurrent as a response to the photoexcited current of the quasiparticles constitutes the concept of a superconducting photodiode. This phenomenon occurs in a two-dimensional thin superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-06 A. V. Parafilo , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

The microscopic theory of current carrying states in the ballistic superconducting microchannel is presented. The effects of the contact length L on the Josephson current are investigated. For the temperatures T close to the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Malek Zareyan , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk

Electronic properties of heterostructures in which a finite number of Mott-insulator layers are sandwiched by semi-infinite metallic leads are investigated by using the dynamical-mean-field method combined with the Keldysh Green's function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Satoshi Okamoto

We study superconductivity in a family of one dimensional incommensurate system with $s$-wave pairing interaction. The incommensurate potential can alter the spatial characteristics of electrons in the normal state, leading to either…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-11 Zhijie Fan , Gia-Wei Chern , Shi-Zeng Lin

The ac Josephson effect in hybrid systems of a normal mesoscopic conductor coupled to two superconducting (S) leads is investigated theoretically. A general formula of the ac components of time-dependent current is derived which is valid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Jian Wang

In the quasi-twodimensional (Q2D) electron gas of an InAs channel between an AlSb substrate and superconducting Niobium layers the proximity effect induces a pair potential so that a Q2D mesoscopic superconducting-normal-superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Jacobs , Reiner Kümmel , Hartmut Plehn