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We describe the conductance of a normal-superconducting junction in systems with Landau levels that preserve time reversal symmetry. Those Landau levels have been observed in strained honeycomb lattices. The current is carried along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 K. G. S. H. Gunawardana , Bruno Uchoa

The infuence of the conduction-electron spin magnetization density, induced in a two-dimensional electron layer by a microwave electromagnetic field, on the rejection and transmission of the field is considered. Because of the induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Victor M. Edelstein

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

One of the best known causes of dissipation in ac driven quantum systems stems from photon absorption. Dissipation can also be caused by the retarded response to the time-dependent excitation, and in general gives insight into the system's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Bastien Dassonneville , Anil Murani , Meydi Ferrier , Sophie Guéron , Hélène Bouchiat

We extend our approach based on the second order perturbation theory in the Coulomb interaction recently developed for quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads to the superconducting double quantum dot setups. Using our perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Vladislav Pokorný , Martin Žonda , Georgios Loukeris , Tomáš Novotný

New method to probe quantum dynamics of the order parameter phase of a small superconductive island is proposed. The idea is to measure Andreev subgap conductance between the island and a dirty normal-metal wire connected with the island by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Feigel'man , V. B. Geshkenbein , L. B. Ioffe , G. Blatter

Recent experiments on conduction between a semiconductor and a superconductor have revealed a variety of new mesoscopic phenomena. Here is a review of the present status of this rapidly developing field. A scattering theory is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 C. W. J. Beenakker

We find that multiple Andreev reflections mediating the transport in superconducting point contacts are strongly affected by a small amount of impurities in the area of the contact. We also argue that the model based on Zener transitions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. B. Kopnin , V. M. Vinokur

Placing an ensemble of $10^6$ ultracold atoms in the near field of a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator (CPWR) with $Q \sim 10^6$ one can achieve strong coupling between a single microwave photon in the CPWR and a collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 J. Verdu , H. Zoubi , Ch. Koller , J. Majer , H. Ritsch , J. Schmiedmayer

We investigate theoretically charge transport in hybrid multiterminal junctions with superconducting leads kept at different voltages. It is found that multiple Andreev reflections involving several superconducting leads give rise to rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 M. Houzet , P. Samuelsson

We evaluate the realization of a novel geometry of a guided atom interferometer based on a high temperature superconducting microstructure. The interferometer type structure is obtained with a guiding potential realized by two current…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Mueller , X. Wu , A. Mohan , A. Eyvazov , Y. Wu , R. Dumke

We study charge transport of a topological superconductor connected to different electromagnetic environments using a low-energy description where only the Majorana bound states in the superconductor are included. Extending earlier findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg

We present a general theory for the full counting statistics of multiple Andreev reflections in incoherent superconducting-normal-superconducting contacts. The theory, based on a stochastic path integral approach, is applied to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pilgram , P. Samuelsson

Millimeter-wave superconducting resonators are a useful tool for studying quantum device coherence in a new frequency domain. However, improving resonators is difficult without a robust and reliable method for coupling millimeter-wave…

We use point contact spectroscopy to probe the superconducting and normal state properties of the iron-based superconductor $\rm{NaFe_{1-\textit{x}}Co_{\textit{x}}As}$ with $\rm{\textit{x} = 0, 0.02, 0.06}$. Andreev spectra corresponding to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-03 H. Z. Arham , D. E. Bugaris , D. Y. Chung , M. G. Kanatzidis , L. H. Greene

We study resonant transport through a superconducting double barrier structure. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a hole (Andreev reflection). Similarly, transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

Electronic properties of mesoscopic systems made of normal metal in contact with normal and superconducting reservoirs are determined by Andreev Reflection. We address both experimentally and theoretically how Andreev Reflection manifests…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Reulet , D. E. Prober , W. Belzig

Nonlocal currents, in devices where two normal metal terminals are contacted to a superconductor, are determined using the circuit theory of mesoscopic superconductivity. We calculate the conductance associated with crossed Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-26 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig

Manipulating the propagation of electromagnetic waves through sub-wavelength sized artificial structures is the core function of metamaterials. Resonant structures, such as split ring resonators, play the role of artificial "atoms" and…

The transport through a metal-superconductor interface is governed by a special charge conversion process, the Andreev reflection, where each incident electron drags another electron with itself to form a Cooper pair. At the normal side a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-25 A. Geresdi , A. Halbritter , G. Mihály