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We investigated the conductance and shot noise properties of quasiparticle-transport through a superconducting barrier in graphene. Based on the Blonder, Tinkham, and Klapwijk (BTK) formulation, the theory to investigate the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mi Liu , Rui Zhu

We study the charge transport of the spin-selective Andreev reflection(SSAR) effect between a spin polarized scanning tunneling microscope(STM) tip and a Majorana zero mode(MZM). Considering both the MZM and the excited states, we calculate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Xin Shang , Haiwen Liu , Ke Xia

Despite several theoretical approaches describing multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) effect in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junction are elaborated, the problem of comprehensive and adequate description of MAR is highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-06 Z. Popovic , S. Kuzmichev , T. Kuzmicheva

Point contact Andreev reflection spectra have been taken as a function of temperature and magnetic field on the polycrystalline form of the newly discovered iron-based superconductor Sr2ScFePO3. A zero bias conductance peak which disappears…

We investigate the Andreev reflection in the parallel double-quantum-dot structure, by considering one metallic lead and one $s$-wave superconductor to couple to the quantum dots simultaneously. It is found that the Fano lineshhape has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Xiao Qi Wang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Yu Han , Wei-Jiang Gong

Noise and current measurements are key tools for studying mesoscopic systems, revealing insights beyond conductance alone. For instance, noise measurements show that transport carriers in conventional superconductors have charge 2e. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-05 Tim Kokkeler , Alexander Golubov , F. Sebastian Bergeret , Yukio Tanaka

We study Andreev reflection (AR) tunneling through a quantum dot (QD) connected to a ferromagnet and a superconductor, in which the intradot spin-flip interaction is included. By using the nonequibrium-Green-function method, the formula of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiufeng Cao , Yaoming Shi , Xiaolong Song , Shiping Zhou , Hao Chen

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

Fermi arc surface states are the hallmark of Weyl semimetals, whose identification is usually challenged by their coexistence with gapless bulk states. Surface transport measurements by fabricating setups on the sample boundary provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

The Andreev Reflection is the key mechanism for the superconducting proximity effect. It provides phase correlations in a system of non-interacting electrons at mesoscopic scales, i.e. over distances much larger than the microscopic lengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Pannetier , H. Courtois

In the new van der Waals Kondo-lattice Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, itinerant ferromagnetism and heavy fermionic behaviour coexist. Both the key properties of such a system namely a spin-polarized Fermi surface and a low Fermi momentum are expected to…

Tunneling Andreev reflection (TAR) spectroscopy offers a powerful new approach to fingerprint superconducting pairing symmetry at the atomic scale. By leveraging the exponential sensitivity of excess tunneling decay rate to Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Petro Maksymovych , Sang Yong Song , Benjamin Lawrie , Wonhee Ko , Jose L. Lado

We study the transport properties of nanoscale superconducting (S) devices in which two superconducting electrodes are bridged by two parallel ferromagnetic (F) wires, forming an SFFS junction with a separation between the two wires less…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-05 Madalina Colci , Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara , Dale J. Van Harlingen

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…

A recently developed theory for the problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal (N) and a multiband superconductor (MBS) assumes that the incident wave from the normal metal is coherently transmitted through several bands inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

We theoretically demonstrate unusual features of superconducting proximity effect in gapped graphene which presents a pseudospin symmetry-broken ferromagnet with a net pseudomagnetization. We find that the presence of a band gap makes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Point contacts (PC) Andreev reflection dV/dI spectra for the antiferromagnetic (T_N =6K) superconductor (Tc=11K) ErNi2B2C have been measured for the two main crystallographic directions. Observed retention of the Andreev reflection minima…

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted immense interest because they host helical surface states. Protected by time-reversal symmetry, they are robust to non-magnetic disorder. When superconductivity is induced in these helical states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 A. D. K. Finck , C. Kurter , Y. S. Hor , D. J. Van Harlingen

We experimentally investigate charge transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and a three-dimensional WTe$_2$ Weyl semimetal. In addition to classical Andreev reflection, we observe sharp non-periodic subgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 A. Kononov , O. O. Shvetsov , S. V. Egorov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Scattering processes in quantum materials emerge as resonances in electronic transport, including confined modes, Andreev states, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. However, in most instances, these resonances are driven by a single scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-26 Sharadh Jois , Jose L. Lado , Genda Gu , Qiang Li. , Ji Ung Lee