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We study the Andreev and normal reflection processes -- retro as well as specular -- in a bilayer graphene-superconductor junction where equal and opposite displacement fields are applied for the top and bottom layers to induce a band gap.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-17 Panch Ram , Detlef Beckmann , Romain Danneau , Wolfgang Belzig

We study Andreev reflection in graphene nanoribbon/superconductor hybrid junctions. By using a tight-binding approach and the scattering formalism we show that finite-size effects lead to notable differences with respect to the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-28 Diego Rainis , Fabio Taddei , Fabrizio Dolcini , Marco Polini , Rosario Fazio

Using the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study the Andreev reflection in a Y-shaped graphene-superconductor device by tight-binding model. Considering both the zigzag and armchair terminals, we confirm that the zigzag terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Chao Wang , Youlian Zou , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

Despite extensive search for about a decade, specular Andreev reflection is only recently realized in bilayer graphene-superconductor interface. However, the evolution from the typical retro type Andreev reflection to the unique specular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Manas Ranjan Sahu , Pratap Raychaudhuri , Anindya Das

We study the Andreev reflections and the quantum transport in the proximitized graphene/superconductor junction. The proximitized graphene possesses the pseudospin staggered potential and the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Lu Gao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

Andreev reflection at the interface between a half-metallic ferromagnet and a spin-singlet superconductor is possible only if it is accompanied by a spin flip. Here we calculate the Andreev reflection amplitudes for the case that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Joern N. Kupferschmidt , Piet W. Brouwer

We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We report the study of ballistic transport in normal metal/graphene/superconductor junctions in edge-contact geometry. While in the normal state, we have observed Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonances suggesting that charge carriers travel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 P. Pandey , R. Kraft , R. Krupke , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau

We evaluate the differential conductance measured in a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) setting at arbitrary electron transmission between an STM tip and a two-dimensional (2D) superconductor with arbitrary gap structure. Our analytical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-30 P. O. Sukhachov , Felix von Oppen , L. I. Glazman

Using the tight binding model and the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study Andreev reflection in graphene-superconductor junction, where graphene has two nonequal Dirac Cones split in energy and therefore time reversal symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Chao Wang , Lin Zhang , Peipei Zhang , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

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

Hybrid superconductor/graphene (SC/g) junctions are excellent candidates for investigating correlations between Cooper pairs and quantum Hall (QH) edge modes. Experimental studies are challenging as Andreev reflections are extremely…

We show that Andreev reflection in a junction between ferromagnetic (F) and superconducting (S) graphene regions is fundamentally different from the common FS junctions. For a weakly doped F graphene with an exchange field $h$ larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Malek Zareyan , Hakimeh Mohammadpour , Ali G. Moghaddam

We theoretically demonstrate unusual features of superconducting proximity effect in gapped graphene which presents a pseudospin symmetry-broken ferromagnet with a net pseudomagnetization. We find that the presence of a band gap makes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Electrons incident from a normal metal onto a superconductor are reflected back as holes - a process called Andreev reflection. In a normal metal where the Fermi energy is much larger than a typical superconducting gap, the reflected hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 D. K. Efetov , L. Wang , C. Handschin , K. B. Efetov , J. Shuang , R. Cava , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , P. Kim

Being resilient to magnetic field, Ising superconductor serves as an exceptional platform for studying the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism. In this Letter, we first explore the transport properties of a two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Gaoyang Li , Sourabh Patil , Yanxia Xing , Wolfgang Belzig , Gaomin Tang

Scattering processes in quantum materials emerge as resonances in electronic transport, including confined modes, Andreev states, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. However, in most instances, these resonances are driven by a single scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-26 Sharadh Jois , Jose L. Lado , Genda Gu , Qiang Li. , Ji Ung Lee

We consider Andreev reflection in a two dimensional junction between a normal metal and a heavy fermion superconductor in the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) type of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. We assume s-wave symmetry of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-10 J. Kaczmarczyk , M. Sadzikowski , J. Spałek

We report the investigation of electron transport through a four-terminal graphene-superconductor hybrid system. Due to the quantum interference of the reflected holes from two graphene-superconductor interfaces with phase difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

Andreev reflection in graphene is special since it can be of two types- retro or specular. Specular Andreev reflection (SAR) dominates when the position of the Fermi energy in graphene is comparable to or smaller than the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhiram Soori , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Anindya Das , Subroto Mukerjee
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