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We study theoretically electronic transport through a normal metal-- superconductor (NS) interface and show that more than one conductance may be defined, depending on the pair of chemical potentials whose difference one chooses to relate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Sols , J. Sánchez-Cañizares

We have studied the interplay of Andreev reflection and cyclotron motion of quasiparticles at a superconductor-normal-metal interface with a strong magnetic field applied parallel to the interface. Bound states are formed due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Hoppe , U. Zuelicke , Gerd Schoen

We study the proximity coherence in a mesoscopic normal-metal film (N) in contact with a superconductor (S). Accounting for a repulsive interaction between the electrons in the normal metal, we find an enhanced local density of states close…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Fauchere , W. Belzig , G. Blatter

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

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

We experimentally study electron transport across a single planar junction between the indium electrode and MnTe altermagnet candidate. We confirm standard Ohmic behavior with strictly linear current-voltage curves above the indium critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

An incoming electron is reflected back as a hole at a normal-metal-superconductor interface, a process known as Andreev reflection. We predict that there exists a universal transverse shift in this process due to the effect of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We study Andreev reflection at an interface between a half metal and a superconductor with spin-orbit interaction. While the absence of minority carriers in the half metal makes singlet Andreev reflection impossible, the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mathias Duckheim , Piet W. Brouwer

Superconductors with unconventional pairings have been a fascinating subject of research, for which a central issue is to explore effects that can be used to characterize the pairing. The process of Andreev reflection--the reflection of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Zhi-Ming Yu , Ying Liu , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate a normal metal -- superconductor (point) contact in the limit where the number of conducting channels in the metallic wire is reduced to few channels. As the effective Fermi energy drops below the gap energy, a conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordey B. Lesovik , Gianni Blatter

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

At a normal-metal/superconductor interface, an incident electron from the normal-metal (N) side can be normally reflected as an electron or Andreev reflected as a hole. We show that pronounced lateral shifts along the interface between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

Electrical properties of Josephson junctions Nb/FeSi/Nb with superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F)interfaces are presented. Due to Andreev reflection the nearly exact quadruple enhancement of the tunnel junction differential conductance compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Vavra , S. Gazi , I. Vavra , G. Radnoczi , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. Derer , E. Kovacova

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

We construct a theory for low-energy quantum transport in normal$\mid$superconductor junctions involving the recently discovered iron-based high-$T_c$ superconductors. We properly take into account both Andreev bound surface states and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

The conductance of a junction between a normal metal and a superconductor having the symmetry proposed by Berezinskii is studied theoretically. The main feature of this symmetry is the odd frequency dependence of the anomalous Green…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-15 Ya. V. Fominov

We study the angle dependence of the Andreev scattering at a semiconductor-superconductor interface, generalizing the one-dimensional theory of Blonder, Tinkham and Klapwijk. An increase of the momentum parallel to the interface leads to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Asger Mortensen , Karsten Flensberg , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Strong electron interactions in solids increase effective mass, and shrink the electronic bands [1]. One of the most unique and robust experimental facts about iron-based superconductors [2-4] is the renormalization of the conduction band…