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Electron transport driven by the phase coherence and interference of quantum many-body wavefunctions is a fascinating phenomenon with potential technological significance. Superconductivity, for example, enables dissipationless transport…

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This review discusses the electronic properties and the prospective research directions of superconductor-graphene heterostructures. The basic electronic properties of graphene are introduced to highlight the unique possibility of combining…

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The observation of quantum conductance oscillations in mesoscopic systems has traditionally required the confinement of the carriers to a phase space of reduced dimensionality. While electron optics such as lensing and focusing have been…

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We report quantum interference effects in the electrical conductance of chemical vapor deposited graphene nanoconstrictions fabricated using feedback controlled electroburning. The observed multimode Fabry-Perot interferences can be…

We perform extensive analysis of graphene Josephson junctions embedded in microwave circuits. By comparing a diffusive junction at 15 mK with a ballistic one at 15 mK and 1 K, we are able to reconstruct the current-phase relation.

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Electron optics in the solid state promises new functionality in electronics through the possibility of realizing micrometer-sized interferometers, lenses, collimators and beam splitters that manipulate electrons instead of light. Until…

We study finite-frequency quantum noise and photon-assisted electron transport through a wide and ballistic graphene sheet sandwiched between two metallic leads. The elementary excitations allow as to examine the differences between effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jan Hammer , Wolfgang Belzig

We have realized nanometer size constrictions in ballistic graphene nanoribbons grown on sidewalls of SiC mesa structures. The high quality of our devices allows the observation of a number of electronic quantum interference phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jens Baringhaus , Mikkel Settnes , Johannes Aprojanz , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christoph Tegenkamp

A tight-binding approach based on the Chebyshev-Bogoliubov-de Gennes method is used to describe disordered single-layer graphene Josephson junctions. Scattering by vacancies, ripples or charged impurities is included. We compute the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 W. A. Munoz , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

Detecting the phases of the superconducting order parameter is pivotal for unraveling the pairing symmetry of superconducting electrons. Conventional methods for probing these phases have focused on macroscopic interference effects, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-02 Bo Zhan , Qiang Gao , Runze Chi , Yiwen Chen , Lin Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xingjiang Zhou , Tao Xiang

Theory of self induced resonances in asymmetric two-junction interferometer device is presented. In real devices it is impossible to have an ideal interferometer free of imperfections. Thus, we extended previous theoretical approaches…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. P. Polak , E. Sarnelli

We study ballistic electron transport through electrostatic barriers in AB-stacked bilayer graphene within a full four-band framework. A mode-resolved analysis reveals how propagating and evanescent channels couple across electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

The rich and electrostatically tunable phase diagram exhibited by moir\'e materials has made them a suitable platform for hosting single material multi-purpose devices. To engineer such devices, understanding electronic transport and…

Electronic interferometers using the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) can demonstrate a wealth of fundamental phenomena. The recent observation of phase jumps in a Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interferometer…

We analyze an interplay between the proximity effect and quantum interference of electrons in hybrid structures superconductor-normal metal-superconductor which contain several insulating barriers. We demonstrate that the dc Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

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The interaction of mesoscopic interference devices with nonclassical electromagnetic fields is studied. The external quantum fields induce a phase factor on the electric charges. This phase factor, which is a generalization of the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Tsomokos , C. C. Chong , A. Vourdas

We present experimental observations of the interference of spin-wave modes propagating in opposite directions in micron-sized NiFe-waveguides. To monitor the local spin-wave intensity distribution and phase of the formed interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Philipp Pirro , Thomas Brächer , Katrin Vogt , Björn Obry , Helmut Schultheiss , Britta Leven , Burkard Hillebrands

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

Classically, wave interference is a phenomenon that can be explained by considering only the waves themselves, that is, without the need to consider the apparatus that monitors or observes them. Thus, in classical theories, interference can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Alexandre Cesar Ricardo , Ciro Micheletti Diniz , Celso Jorge Villas-Bôas