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A short superconducting segment can couple attached quantum dots via elastic co-tunneling (ECT) and crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). Such coupled quantum dots can host Majorana bound states provided that the ratio between CAR and ECT can…

One of the salient signatures of Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity is a $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect due to the combination of fermion parity conservation and the presence of a topologically protected odd number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Christian Spånslätt

Graphene nanoribbons with perfect edges are predicted to exhibit interesting electronic and spintronic properties, notably quantum-confined bandgaps and magnetic edge states. However, graphene nanoribbons produced by lithography have, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Xinran Wang , Yijian Ouyang , Liying Jiao , Hailiang Wang , Liming Xie , Justin Wu , Jing Guo , Hongjie Dai

A ballistic strip of graphene (width W>> length L) connecting two normal metal contacts is known to have a minimum conductivity of 4e^{2}/pi h at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. We calculate what happens if one of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

The electronic nonlinear transport through ultra narrow graphene nanoribbons (sub-$10nm$) is studied. A stable region of negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the I-V characteristic curve of {\it odd} zigzag graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Hosein Cheraghchi

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

The linear conductance spectrum of a metallic graphene junction formed by interconnecting two gapless graphene nanoribbons is calculated. A strong conductance suppression appears in the vicinity of the Dirac point. We found that such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Yisong Zheng

We theoretically reveal the unusual features of the Josephson effect in a strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon with a small length relative to the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width. We find a step-wise variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

The ability to induce a sizable gap in the excitation spectrum of a normal layer placed in contact with a conventional superconductor has become increasingly important in recent years in the context of engineering a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Holger Fehske , Georg Hager , Andreas Pieper

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

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

In this paper, we study the conductance and shot noise in transport through a multi-site system in a two terminal configuration. The dependence of the transport on the number of atoms in the atomic wire is investigated using a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

The Andreev reflection of narrow ferromagnet/superconductor point contacts is theoretically studied. We show that the conductance quantization depends on whether the contact region is superconducting or ferromagnetic as well as on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichirou Kikuchi , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

The anomalous spatial shifts at interface scattering, first studied in geometric optics, recently found their counterparts in the electronic context. It was shown that both longitudinal and transverse shifts, analogous to the Goos-Hanchen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Zhi-Ming Yu , Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang

The comment (arXiv:2505.23490) fails to identify any scientific errors and its central arguments actually support the main conclusions of our publication [Nat. Phys. 21, 708 (2025)]. Firstly, the whole argument of the comment to try to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Junya Feng , Henry F. Legg , Mahasweta Bagchi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja , Yoichi Ando

We formulate a microscopic theory of non-local electron transport in three-terminal diffusive normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures with arbitrary interface transmissions. At low energies $\varepsilon$ we predict strong enhancement…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 D. S. Golubev , M. S. Kalenkov , A. D. Zaikin

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

Despite several theoretical approaches describing multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) effect in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junction are elaborated, the problem of comprehensive and adequate description of MAR is highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-06 Z. Popovic , S. Kuzmichev , T. Kuzmicheva

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power