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Spin filter superconducting S/I/N tunnel junctions (NbN/GdN/TiN) show a robust and pronounced zero bias conductance peak at low temperatures, the magnitude of which is several times the normal state conductance of the junction. Such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-02 Avradeep Pal , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Matthias Eschrig , Jacob Linder , Mark Blamire

Superconductivity and nontrivial topology are highly sought-after phenomena in quantum materials. While many topological crystalline materials have been found to exhibit superconductivity, their presence in quasicrystals - materials with a…

We have studied mesoscopic Josephson junctions formed by highly $n$-doped InAs nanowires and superconducting Ti/Pb source and drain leads. The current-voltage properties of the system are investigated by varying temperature and external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 J. Paajaste , M. Amado , S. Roddaro , F. S. Bergeret , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

We report superconductivity in Sn$_{x}$NbSe$_{2-\delta}$, a topological nodal-line semimetal candidate with a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure. The superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ of this compound is extremely sensitive…

We have investigated metallic break junctions of the heavy-fermion compound UPd2Al3 at low temperatures between 0.1K and 9K and in magnetic fields up to 8T. Both the current-voltage I(V) characteristics and the dV/dI (V) spectra clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. G. Naidyuk , K. Gloos , I. K. Yanson , N. K. Sato

Contacts between high critical field superconductors and semiconductor nanowires are important in the context of topological quantum circuits in which superconductivity must be sustained to high magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Zhaoen Su , Azarin Zarassi , Binh-Minh Nguyen , Jinkyoung Yoo , Shadi A. Dayeh , Sergey M. Frolov

We present transport measurements in superconductor-nanowire devices with a gated constriction forming a quantum point contact. Zero-bias features in tunneling spectroscopy appear at finite magnetic fields, and oscillate in amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 H. O. H. Churchill , V. Fatemi , K. Grove-Rasmussen , M. T. Deng , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu , C. M. Marcus

Physical properties in the normal and superconducting (SC) state are investigated with $^{125}$Te-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in a quasicrystal $\mathrm{(Ta_{0.95}Cu_{0.05})_{1.6}Te}$, which was a recently discovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-07 H. Matsudaira , S. Kitagawa , K. Ishida , Y. Tokumoto , K. Tomiyama , K. Edagawa

While bulk bismuth (Bi) is a semimetal, we have found clear evidence of superconductivity in a crystalline 72 nm diameter Bi nanowire below 1.3 K. In a parallel magnetic field (H), the residual resistance of the nanowire below Tc displays…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mingliang Tian , Jian Wang , Qi Zhang , Nitesh Kumar , Thomas E. Malouk , Moses H. W. Chan

Using tunneling spectroscopy, we have measured the local electron energy distribution function in the normal part of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction containing an extra lead to a normal reservoir. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Crosser , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , Norman O. Birge

We observe a maximum in the conductance of Aluminum / n-GaAs junctions at temperatures 20 mK lower than the superconducting transition temperature. This is the first observation of a non- monotonic behavior of the conductance near the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Shapira , E. H. Linfield , C. J. Lambert , R. Seviour , A. F. Volkov , A. V. Zaitsev

Quasi-one-dimensional electron systems display intrinsic instability towards long-range ordered phases at sufficiently low temperatures. The superconducting orders are of particular interest as they can possess either singlet or triplet…

Achieving highly transmitting molecular junctions through resonant transport at low bias is key to the next-generation low-power molecular devices. Although, resonant transport in molecular junctions was observed by connecting a molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Biswajit Pabi , Štepán Marek , Adwitiya Pal , Puja Kumari , Soumya Jyoti Ray , Arunabha Thakur , Richard Korytár , Atindra Nath Pal

Quasiclassical Green's functions of a short superconductor/normal metal/superconductor (SNS) junction are calculated for multi-mode junction with arbitrary electron transmission properties. They provide the basis for description of all of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Averin

The observation of very large microwave-enhanced critical currents in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions at temperatures well below the critical temperature of the electrodes has remained without a satisfactory…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-18 Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Juan Carlos Cuevas

NaAlSi is an sp electron superconductor crystallizing in a layered structure of the anti-PbFCl type with a relatively high transition temperature Tc of ~7 K. Recent electronic state calculations revealed the presence of topological nodal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-01 Takahiro Yamada , Daigorou Hirai , Hisanori Yamane , Zenji Hiroi

Magneto-fluctuations of the normal resistance RN have been reproducibly observed in YBa2Cu3O7-d biepitaxial grain boundary junctions at low temperatures. We attribute them to mesoscopic transport in narrow channels across the grain boundary…

We use inelastic neutron scattering to study magnetic excitations of the FeAs-based superconductor BaFe$_{1.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$As$_2$ above and below its superconducting transition temperature $T_c=20$ K. In addition to gradually open a spin gap…

We study the conductance of a junction between the normal and superconducting segments of a nanowire, both of which are subjected to spin-orbit coupling and an external magnetic field. We directly compare the transport properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Christopher Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We study the current-phase relation (CPR) of an InSb-Al nanowire Josephson junction in parallel magnetic fields up to $700$\,mT. At high magnetic fields and in narrow voltage intervals of a gate under the junction, the CPR exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Vukan Levajac , Hristo Barakov , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Nick van Loo , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Yuli V. Nazarov , Ji-Yin Wang