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We study resonant tunneling through a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene as a function of the system parameters. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

We study superconducting quantum interference in InSb flake Josephson junctions. An even-odd effect in the amplitude and periodicity of the superconducting quantum interference pattern is found. Interestingly, the occurrence of this pattern…

STM experiments in the tunneling and Andreev regimes on graphene-based moire superconductors (SC) show two distinct energy scales whose origin is mysterious. We express the conductance of a normal-SC interface in terms of Green's functions,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-12 Sayak Biswas , Saurav Suman , Mohit Randeria , Rajdeep Sensarma

We study the pseudo-spin of electron pair in superconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers and show that the pseudo-spin affects the electric transport property of lateral heterojunction of the superconducting and metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Tetsuro Habe

The topological properties of a multiband topological superconductor in two dimensions are studied, when the latter is obtained by introducing electron pairing in an otherwise topological insulator. The type of pairing, doping and Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana C. Silva , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Pedro D. Sacramento

We investigate the properties of subharmonic gap structure (SGS) in superconducting quantum contacts with normal-electron resonances. We find two distinct new features of the SGS in resonant junctions which distinguish them from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Johansson , E. N. Bratus , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We review here a novel circuit theory of superconductivity. The existed circuit theory of Andreev reflection has been revised to account for decoherence between electrons and holes and twofold nature of the distribution function. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuli V. Nazarov

In this letter we address the question of the phenomena of Andreev reflection between the cold quark-gluon plasma phase and CFL color superconductor. We show that there are two different types of reflections connected to the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sadzikowski , M. Tachibana

The Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model of the Point-Contact Andreev Reflection spectroscopy does not provide an adequate description of experiment in the presence of magnetic field. We demonstrate this using a junction between a niobium tip and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Miyoshi , Y. Bugoslavsky , L. F. Cohen

Using a wavefunction Dirac Bogoliubov-de Gennes method, we demonstrate that the tunable Fermi level of a graphene layer in the presence of Rashba spin orbit coupling (RSOC) allows for producing an anomalous nonlocal Andreev reflection and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-06 Razieh Beiranvand , Hossein Hamzehpour , Mohammad Alidoust

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Andreev reflection spectroscopy of ferromagnet/superconductor (FS) junctions is an important probe of spin polarization. We theoretically investigate spin-polarized transport in FS junctions in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-24 Petra Högl , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić , Jaroslav Fabian

We analyze the transport properties of contacts between unconventional superconductor and normal diffusive metal in the framework of the extended circuit theory. We obtain a general boundary condition for the Keldysh-Nambu Green's functions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Tanaka , Yu. V. Nazarov , A. A. Golubov , S. Kashiwaya

We investigate Andreev reflection (AR) in a proximity-induced normal-superconductor (NS) junction within the extended $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice, emphasizing the impact of flat bands on AR. Our findings reveal that flat bands…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Sarbajit Mazumdar , Anamitra Mukherjee , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

We describe the Fermionic Casimir effect in the case of two spherical superfluid scatterers immersed in a normal Fermi system. It is shown that due to the focusing property of Andreev reflection this new Casimir-like energy is significantly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-19 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Andreas Wirzba

We discuss the surface impedance (Z=R-iX) of a normal-metal/superconductor proximity structure taking into account the spin-dependent potential at the junction interface. Because of the spin mixing transport at the interface, odd-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Yasuhiro Asano , Masahiro Ozaki , Tetsuro Habe , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka

We have shown that the electron transport through junctions of one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems, as well as through quantum point contacts, is considerably affected by the interaction of electrons of different subbands. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Sablikov

Tunneling spectroscopy at surfaces of unconventional superconductors has proven an invaluable tool for obtaining information about the pairing symmetry. It is known that mid gap Andreev bound states manifest itself as a zero bias…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-09 Matthias Eschrig , Christian Iniotakis , Yukio Tanaka

Landau Fermi liquid theory predicts that the differential conductivity between metallic point and metal is a symmetric function of voltage bias V. This symmetry holds if the particle-hole symmetry is preserved. We show that the situation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. R. Shaginyan , K. G. Popov

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