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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 modify and extend previous microscopic calculations of tunneling in superconducting junctions based on a non-equilibrium Green function formalism to include the case of spin-triplet pairing. We show that distinctive features are present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

A spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (spin MOSFET), which combines a Schottky-barrier MOSFET with ferromagnetic source and drain contacts, is a promising device for spintronic logic. Previous simulation studies predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Tony Low , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

We theoretically study nonequilibrium spin transport in a superconducting wire connected by tunnel junctions to two ferromagnetic metal wires, each of which serves as an injector or detector of spin-polarized electron current. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yositake Takane

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

Nonequilibrium charge transport in superconductors has been investigated intensely in the 1970s and 80s, mostly in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Much less attention has been focussed on low temperatures, and the role of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-18 M. J. Wolf , F. Hübler , S. Kolenda , D. Beckmann

Using Density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, spin dependent electron transport in Fe/Mo$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$S$_2$/Fe magnetic tunnel junction is studied. Spin transport for different thicknesses (1, 3, 5, and 7…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Aloka Ranjan Sahoo , Sharat Chandra

We investigate the effect of Zeeman-splitting on quasiparticle transport in normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) aluminum single electron transistors (SETs). In the above-gap transport the interplay of Coulomb blockade and Zeeman-splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Ferguson , S. E. Andresen , R. Brenner , R. G. Clark

We discuss electric transport through a point contact which bridges Majorana fermion modes appearing at edges of two helical superconductors. The contents focus on effects of interference and interaction unique to the Majorana fermions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-05 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

The quasiclassical theory of superconductivity provides the most successful description of diffusive heterostructures comprising superconducting elements, namely, the Usadel equations for isotropic Green's functions. Since the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-19 Audrey Cottet , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Wolfgang Belzig , Yuli V. Nazarov

We investigate heat and charge transport through a diffusive SIF1F2N tunnel junction, where N (S) is a normal (superconducting) electrode, I is an insulator layer and F1,2 are two ferromagnets with arbitrary direction of magnetization. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Ozaeta , A. S. Vasenko , F. W. J. Hekking , F. S. Bergeret

The increased capabilities of coupling more and more materials through functional interfaces are paving the way to a series of exciting experiments and extremely advanced devices. Here we focus on the capability of magnetically…

We present a numerical study of the density of states in a ferromagnet/superconductor junction and the Josephson current in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction in the diffusive limit by solving the Usadel equation with…

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

Motivated by the unique dispersions close to the two dimensional band crossing in a topologically charged nodal surface semimetal (NSSM) spectrum, we perform theoretical analysis of quantum tunnelling through a junction consisting of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Bhaskar Pandit , Debabrata Sinha , Satyaki Kar

We analyze charge transport through a ballistic ferromagnet/insulator/superconductor junction by means of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We take into account the possibility that ferromagnetism in the first electrode may be driven by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Gaetano Annunziata , Mario Cuoco , Paola Gentile , Alfonso Romano , Canio Noce

We present a combined experimental and theoretical work that investigates the magnetic proximity effect at a ferromagnetic-insulator - superconductor (FI-S) interface. The simulation is based on the boundary condition for diffusive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-21 P. Machon , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

We report on the study of electron transport in the oxide heterostructures with superconductor/magnetic matter (S/M) interfaces where anomaly large penetration of superconducting correlations in magnetic matter (proximity effect) is…

We present an exhaustive theoretical analysis of a double-loop Josephson proximity interferometer, as the one recently realized by Strambini et al. for the control of the Andreev spectrum via an external magnetic field. This system, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 F. Vischi , M. Carrega , E. Strambini , S. D'Ambrosio , F. S. Bergeret , Yu. V. Nazarov , F. Giazotto

We propose altermagnet-superconductor junctions as a way to achieve a thermoelectric response in metals free of external or stray magnetic fields. We combine qualitative analysis in a simplified model with a more rigorous approach based on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-18 Pavlo O. Sukhachov , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

We study electronic transport in junctions consisting of a superconductor electrode and two ferromagnet (F) leads in which crossed Andreev reflections (CAR) and elastic cotunnelings are accommodated. We model the system using an extended…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-01 Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara