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We study the interband transport in a superconducting device composed of graphene with EuO-induced exchange interaction. We show that pure crossed Andreev reflection can be generated exclusively without the parasitic local Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Yee Sin Ang , L. K. Ang , C. Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

A new type of disorder-driven electronic percolation transition is found for two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), based on a quantum cellular automaton model. This transition is shown to be accompanied with a metal-insulator transition, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. N. Najafi

We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Jan F. Rentrop , Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden

In the present work, we investigate the electronic transport through a T-shape double quantum dot system coupled to two normal leads and to one superconducting lead. We explore the interplay between Kondo and Andreev states due to proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 A. M. Calle , M. Pacheco , G. B. Martins , V. M. Apel , G. A. Lara , P. A. Orellana

Topological superconductors, which support Majorana fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-24 James Jun He , Jiansheng Wu , Ting-Pong Choy , Xiong-Jun Liu , Y. Tanaka , K. T. Law

We study nonlocal transport in a two-leg Kitaev ladder connected to two normal metals. The coupling between the two legs of the ladder when the legs are maintained at a (large) superconducting phase difference, results in the creation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Ritu Nehra , Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Auditya Sharma , Abhiram Soori

We present a numerical model of local and nonlocal transport properties in a lateral spin valve structure consisting of two magnetic electrodes in contact with a third perpendicular superconducting electrode. By considering the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 James Luke Webb , Bryan Hickey , Gavin Burnell

We construct a theory for low-energy quantum transport in normal$\mid$superconductor junctions involving the recently discovered iron-based high-$T_c$ superconductors. We properly take into account both Andreev bound surface states and the…

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

A one-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor hosts a Majorana Kramers pair at each end, where time-reversal symmetry acts as a supersymmetry that flips local fermion parity. We examine the transport anomaly of such a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-02 Zhi-qiang Bao , Fan Zhang

We solve the problem of an interacting quantum dot embedded in a Josephson junction between two superconductors with finite charging energy described by the transmon (Cooper pair box) Hamiltonian. The approach is based on the flat-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Luka Pavešić , Rok Žitko

We present exact analytical results for the differential conductance of a finite Kitaev chain in an N-S-N configuration, where the topological superconductor is contacted on both sides with normal leads. Our results are obtained with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Nico Leumer , Magdalena Marganska , Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Milena Grifoni

We study the interacting quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads by means of a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method in the Keldysh-Nambu formalism. Deducing the steady current through the quantum dot under a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-10 Akihisa Koga

We develop a theory of the non-local transport of two counter-propagating $\nu = 1$ quantum Hall edges coupled via a narrow disordered superconductor. The system is self-tuned to the critical point between trivial and topological phases by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Leonid I. Glazman

We study transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads using the numerical renormalization group method. We show that the low-energy properties of the system are described by the local Fermi liquid theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami , Akira Oguri

Andreev reflection-where an electron in a normal metal backscatters off a superconductor into a hole-forms the basis of low energy transport through superconducting junctions. Andreev reflection in confined regions gives rise to discrete…

We investigate electron transport through multiterminal networks hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) in the framework of full counting statistics (FCS). In particular, we apply our general results to T-shaped junctions of two Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

We report the observation of two fundamental sub-gap transport processes through a quantum dot (QD) with a superconducting contact. The device consists of a carbon nanotube contacted by a Nb superconducting and a normal metal contact.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 J. Gramich , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

We study the thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal metallic leads and side-coupled to Majorana bound state (MBS). The Coulomb interaction in QD is considered. To investigate only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Chol Won Ri , Kum Hyok Jong , Song Jin Im , Hak Chol Pak

We study the transport through side-coupled double quantum dots, connected to normal and superconducting (SC) leads with a T-shape configuration. We find, using the numerical renormalization group, that the Coulomb interaction suppresses SC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami , Akira Oguri

Non-local pairing processes at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor are usually suppressed by helicity. However, additional proximity of a ferromagnetic insulator can substantially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 François Crépin , Pablo Burset , Björn Trauzettel