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We construct high-quality graphene-based van der Waals devices with narrow superconducting niobium nitride (NbN) electrodes, in which superconductivity and robust fqH coexist. We find crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) across the…

We consider transport in a three terminal device attached to one superconducting and two normal metal terminals, using the circuit theory of mesoscopic superconductivity. We compute the nonlocal conductance of the current out of the first…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig

The recent development of superconducting spintronics has revealed the spin-triplet superconducting proximity effect from a spin-singlet superconductor into a spin-polarized normal metal. In addition recently superconducting junctions using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sadashige Matsuo , Kento Ueda , Shoji Baba , Hiroshi Kamata , Mizuki Tateno , Javad Shabani , Christopher J. Palmstrøm , Seigo Tarucha

Tunneling Andreev reflection (TAR) spectroscopy offers a powerful new approach to fingerprint superconducting pairing symmetry at the atomic scale. By leveraging the exponential sensitivity of excess tunneling decay rate to Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Petro Maksymovych , Sang Yong Song , Benjamin Lawrie , Wonhee Ko , Jose L. Lado

We review recent progress in analysing wave scattering in systems with both intrinsic chaos and/or disorder and internal losses, when the scattering matrix is no longer unitary. By mapping the problem onto a nonlinear supersymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. V. Fyodorov , D. V. Savin , H. -J. Sommers

We study the effect of spin injection into $s-$ and $d-$wave superconductors, with an emphasis on the interplay between boundary and bulk spin transport properties. The quantities of interest include the amount of non-equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert L. Merrill , Qimiao Si

In this work we uncover an interesting quantum plateau behavior for the Andreev reflection between a one-dimensional quantum wire and superconductor. The quantum plateau is achieved by properly tuning the interplay of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

We study the probability distribution function $P(\lambda)$ of the largest eigenvalue $\lambda_{\rm max}$ of $N \times N$ random matrices of the form $H + V$, where $H$ belongs to the GOE/GUE ensemble and $V$ is a full rank deterministic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-14 Pierre Le Doussal

We study superconductors with $n$-fold rotational invariance both in the presence and in the absence of spin-orbit interactions. More specifically, we classify the non-interacting Hamiltonians by defining a series of $Z$-numbers for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Matthew J. Gilbert

The Andreev reflection (AR) in 2D HgTe/CdTe quantum well-superconductor hybrid systems is studied. A quantized AR with AR coefficient equal to one is predicted, which is due to the multi-Andreev reflection near the interface of the hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Qing-feng Sun , Yu-Xian Li , Wen Long , Jian Wang

Numerical simulations of conduction through a disordered microbridge between a normal metal and a superconductor have revealed an anomalous insensitivity of the conductance fluctuations to a magnetic field. A theory for the anomaly is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

The conductance G of a quantum dot with single-mode ballistic point contacts depends sensitively on external parameters X, such as gate voltage and magnetic field. We calculate the joint distribution of G and dG/dX by relating it to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 P. W. Brouwer , S. A. van Langen , K. M. Frahm , M. Buttiker , C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider Andreev reflection in a two dimensional junction between a normal metal and a heavy fermion superconductor in the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) type of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. We assume s-wave symmetry of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-10 J. Kaczmarczyk , M. Sadzikowski , J. Spałek

We derive the statistics of the time-delay matrix (energy derivative of the scattering matrix) in an ensemble of superconducting quantum dots with chaotic scattering (Andreev billiards), coupled ballistically to $M$ conducting modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 M. Marciani , P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

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

Using the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study the Andreev reflection in a Y-shaped graphene-superconductor device by tight-binding model. Considering both the zigzag and armchair terminals, we confirm that the zigzag terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Chao Wang , Youlian Zou , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

We investigate the crossed Andreev reflections between two graphene leads connected by a narrow superconductor. When the leads are respectively of the n-and p- type, we find that electron elastic cotunneling and local Andreev reflection are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Cayssol

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we reproducibly obtained electrical conductance spectra of superconductor- superconductor atomic point contacts formed on various atomic sites of the substrate. From the analysis of the subharmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Howon Kim , Yukio Hasegawa

We compute the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of the neural tangent kernel of a two-layer neural network under a specific scaling of dimension. Namely, if $X\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ is an i.i.d random matrix, $W\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Lucas Benigni , Elliot Paquette

We study Andreev reflection in a normal conductor-molecule-superconductor junction using a first principles approach. In particular, we focus on a family of molecules consisting of a molecular backbone and a weakly coupled side group. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Kormanyos , I. Grace , C. J. Lambert
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