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We study the excess conductance due to the superconducting proximity effect in a ballistic two-dimensional electron system subject to an in-plane magnetic field. We show that under certain conditions the interplay of the Zeeman spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Grygoriy Tkachov , Klaus Richter

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 study the Andreev levels, supercurrent and tunnelling conductance in a clean Ising superconductor (ISC)/half metal (HM)/Ising superconductor (ISC) Josephson junction with spin-active interfaces using Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Saumen Acharjee , Arindam Boruah , Nimisha Dutta , Reeta Devi

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

Understanding the subgap behavior of Normal-Insulator-Superconductor (NIS) tunnel junctions is important in order to be able to accurately model the thermal properties of the junctions. Hekking and Nazarov developed a theory in which NIS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-23 Peter J. Lowell , Galen C. O'Neil , Jason M. Underwood , Joel N. Ullom

We report the first experimental observation of subgap transport in ferromagnetic insulator/superconductor/insulator/superconductor junctions realized in EuS/Al/AlOx/Al vertical stacks. Differential conductance measurements reveal multiple…

We study tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor (F/S) junctions. We include the effects of spin polarization, interfacial resistance, and Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions. Andreev reflection (AR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

We theoretically propose the laser-induced Andreev reflection between two-component Fermi superfluid and normal states via spatially-uniform Rabi couplings. By analyzing the tunneling current between the superfluid and normal states up to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-01 Tingyu Zhang , Hiroyuki Tajima , Yuta Sekino , Shun Uchino , Haozhao Liang

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

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

FeSe single crystals have been studied by soft point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy. Superconducting gap features in the differential resistance dV/dI(V) of point contacts such as a characteristic Andreev-reflection double-minimum…

When a quantum dot is attached to a metallic reservoir and a superconducting contact Andreev processes leads to a finite subgap current at the normal lead and the creation or destruction of Cooper pairs. Andreev-reflection engines profit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Gonzalo Manzano , Rosa López

We study the spin-resolved subgap transport in a triple quantum-dot system coupled to one superconducting and two ferromagnetic leads. We examine the Andreev processes in the parallel and antiparallel alignments of ferromagnets magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann

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

Point contact Andreev reflection studies have been conducted on FeSe single crystals by lowering the temperatures down to 0.5 K. The point contact Andreev reflection spectra were analyzed in the framework of the two-band model. As a result,…

We develop a detailed microscopic theory describing dc Josephson effect and Andreev bound states in superconducting junctions with a half-metal. In such systems the supercurrent is caused by triplet pairing states emerging due to spin-flip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-29 Artem V. Galaktionov , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The transition-metal dichalcogenides featuring Ising spin-orbit coupling in so-called Ising superconductors offer a unique system to study the interplay of singlet and triplet superconductivity. The presence of high critical fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Sourabh Patil , Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig

We theoretically reveal the possibility of specular Andreev reflection in a thin film topological insulator normal-superconductor (N/S) junction in the presence of a gate electric field. The probability of specular Andreev reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

We experimentally investigate transport properties of a single planar junction between the niobium superconductor and the edge of a two-dimensional electron system in a narrow $In_{0.75}Ga_{0.25}As$ quantum well with strong Rashba-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 A. Kononov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , E. V. Deviatov

The transport properties of a ferromagnet-superconductor (FS) junction are studied in a scattering formulation. Andreev reflection at the FS interface is strongly affected by the exchange interaction in the ferromagnet. The conductance G_FS…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 M. J. M. de Jong , C. W. J. Beenakker