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We report on the measurement of multiple Andreev resonances at atomic size point contacts between two superconducting nanostructures of Pb under magnetic fields higher than the bulk critical field, where superconductivity is restricted to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Suderow , E. Bascones , W. Belzig , F. Guinea , S. Vieira

In this paper, we introduce a concise theoretical framework for the equilibrium three-terminal Josephson effect in spin-orbit-interacting systems, inspired by recent experiments on an InAs/Al heterostructure [Phys. Rev. X 14, 031024…

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We study theoretically a junction of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian superconductor (PTS) placed between two conventional superconductors. We show that due to non-Hermitian electron-electron interaction in the PTS region and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Viktoriia Kornich , Björn Trauzettel

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 investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

We investigate electron transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and the edge of a two-dimensional semimetal, realized in a 20~nm wide HgTe quantum well. Experimentally, we observe that typical behavior of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 A. Kononov , S. V. Egorov , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , E. V. Deviatov

A multiband superconductor with a conventional phonon mechanism can develop an unconventional state with a nontrivial order parameter phase relation between the individual bands. We propose that such a state can explain recent experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Voelker , Manfred Sigrist

Two-terminal conductance spectroscopy of superconducting devices is a common tool for probing Andreev and Majorana bound states. Here, we study theoretically a three-terminal setup, with two normal leads coupled to a grounded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jeroen Danon , Anna Birk Hellenes , Esben Bork Hansen , Lucas Casparis , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Karsten Flensberg

We theoretically analyze the Andreev bound states and their coupling to external radiation in superconductor-nanowire-superconductor Josephson junctions. We provide an effective Hamiltonian for the junction projected onto the Andreev level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 Sunghun Park , A. Levy Yeyati

We investigate transport properties of a superconducting junction of many ($N \ge 2$) one-dimensional quantum wires. We include the effectofelectron-electron interaction within the one-dimensional quantum wire using a weak interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

We present here an extensive theoretical analysis of the supercurrent of a superconducting point contact of arbitrary transparency in the presence of a microwave field. Our study is mainly based on two different approaches: a two-level…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 F. S. Bergeret , P. Virtanen , A. Ozaeta , T. T. Heikkilä , J. C. Cuevas

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

We show experimentally that in nanometer scaled superconductor/normal metal hybrid devices and in a small window of contact resistances, crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) can dominate the nonlocal transport for all energies below the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-24 A. Kleine , A. Baumgartner , J. Trbovic , C. Schönenberger

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

The superconducting energy gap and quasiparticle density of states (DOS) is measured by means of Andreev-reflection spectroscopy in normal metal - superconductor point contacts. It is found that both in paramagnetic and in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 I. K. Yanson

The energies of Andreev bound states (ABS) forming in a $N$-terminal junction are affected by $N - 1$ independent macroscopic phase differences between superconducting leads and can be regarded as energy bands in $N - 1$ periodic solid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Yuli V. Nazarov

Hybrid devices combining quantum dots with superconductors are important building blocks of conventional and topological quantum-information experiments. A requirement for the success of such experiments is to understand the various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Zoltán Scherübl , András Pályi , Szabolcs Csonka

We present in this letter a theoretical analysis of the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a hybrid normal-superconducting device consisting of a quantum dot and two electrodes that can be either normal or superconducting. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-23 Argo Nurbawono , Yuan Ping Feng , Erhai Zhao , Chun Zhang

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…

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