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We analyze the transport through a narrow ballistic superconductor-normal- metal-superconductor Josephson contact with non-ideal transmission at the superconductor-normal-metal interfaces, e.g., due to insulating layers, effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kuhn , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

We argue that spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering may generate electron-hole imbalance in superconducting structures, such as, e.g., superconducting-normal hybrids with spin-active interfaces. We elucidate a transparent physical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-03 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We develop a detailed theory describing a non-trivial interplay between non-equilibrium effects and long-range quantum coherence in superconducting hybrid nanostructures exposed to a temperature gradient. We establish a direct relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-05 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors have topologically nontrivial properties manifested by protected zero-energy surface states. Specifically, it was recently found that zero-energy surface flat bands of topological origin appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-13 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

We theoretically investigate a two-dimensional heterostructure composed of a topological insulator (TI) and a Mott insulator (MI), and clarify what kind of electronic states can be realized at the interface. By using inhomogeneous dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-13 Suguru Ueda , Norio Kawakami , Manfred Sigrist

We study the Josephson effect in clean heterojunctions that consist of superconductors connected through two metallic ferromagnets with insulating interfaces. We solve the scattering problem based on the Bogoliubov--de Gennes equation for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Pajovic , M. Bozovic , Z. Radovic , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin

We study topology in gapless phases of an interacting spinful model with spin-charge separation. We focus on the gapless boundaries between $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry-breaking phases. We find two topologically non-trivial gapless states that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

We experimentally investigate charge transport in In-GeTe and In-GeTe-In proximity devices, which are formed as junctions between superconducting indium leads and thick single crystal flakes of $\alpha$-GeTe topological semimetal. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 V. D. Esin , D. Yu. Kazmin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

We present results for the steady-state nonlinear response of a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconducting film connected to normal-metal reservoirs under voltage bias, allowing for a subdominant $s$-wave component appearing near the interfaces. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-21 Kevin Marc Seja , Tomas Löfwander

Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Zhitlukhina , I. Devyatov , O. Egorov , M. Belogolovskii , P. Seidel

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the proximity effect due to its role in the realization of topological superconductivity. Here, we study a superconductor--normal metal proximity system with repulsive electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

We calculate the zero-temperature differential conductance $dI/dV$ of a voltage-biased one-dimensional junction between a nontopological and a topological superconductor for arbitrary junction transparency using the scattering matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 F. Setiawan , William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We consider a smooth interface between a topological nodal-line semimetal and a topologically trivial insulator (e.g., the vacuum) or another semimetal with a nodal ring of different radius. Using a low-energy effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Alessandro De Martino

We derive a microscopic effective action for superconducting contacts with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels. Provided fluctuations of the Josephson phase remain sufficiently small our formalism allows to fully…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

The magnetic correlations at the superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interfaces play a crucial role in realizing dissipation-less spin-based logic and memory technologies, such as triplet-supercurrent spin-valves and "{\pi}" Josephson…

We analyze the charge transport between a one-dimensional weakly interacting electron gas and a superconductor within the scaling approach in the basis of scattering states. We derive the renormalization group equations, which fully account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Titov , M. Mueller , W. Belzig

The importance of models with an exact solution for the study of materials with non-trivial topological properties has been extensively demonstrated. Among these, the Kitaev model of a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor plays a guiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 T. O. Puel , P. D. Sacramento , M. A. Continentino

We study the stationary Josephson current in a junction between a topological and an ordinary (topologically trivial) superconductor. Such an S-TS junction hosts a Majorana zero mode that significantly influences the current-phase relation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigelman