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We analyze the charge transport between a one-dimensional weakly interacting electron gas and a superconductor within the scaling approach in the basis of scattering states. We derive the renormalization group equations, which fully account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Titov , M. Mueller , W. Belzig

The quasi-bound states of a superconducting quantum dot that is weakly coupled to a normal metal appear as resonances in the Andreev reflection probability, measured via the differential conductance. We study the evolution of these Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-14 Shuo Mi , D. I. Pikulin , M. Marciani , C. W. J. Beenakker

Fundamental symmetry breaking and relativistic spin-orbit coupling give rise to fascinating phenomena in quantum materials. Of particular interest are the interfaces between ferromagnets and common s-wave superconductors, where the emergent…

A Josephson junction, formed between two phase-biased superconductors and a normal metal, hosts a discrete spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABS). In this paper, we develop a theory for long ballistic Andreev interferometers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Régis Mélin , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Morteza Kayyalha

We investigate Andreev reflection (AR) resonant tunneling through a precessing spin which is coupled to a normal metallic lead and a superconducting lead. The formula of the AR conductance at zero temperature is obtained as a function of…

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

We study the Andreev reflections and the quantum transport in the proximitized graphene/superconductor junction. The proximitized graphene possesses the pseudospin staggered potential and the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Lu Gao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

In the "ballistic" regime, the transport across a normal metal (N)/superconductor (S) point-contact is dominated by a quantum process called Andreev reflection. Andreev reflection causes an enhancement of the conductance below the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 Ritesh Kumar , Goutam Sheet

We study the reflection of electrons and quasiparticles on point-contact interfaces between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and normal metals (leads), as well as interfaces between two FQH states with mismatched filling fractions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

Here we review the literature concerning measurement of the Andreev reflection between a superconductor (S) and ferromagnet (F), with particular attention to the case where the ferromagnet is a transition metal oxide. We discuss the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Karen A Yates , Lesley F Cohen

Particle transport across Josephson junctions is commonly described using a simplifying approximation (often called the Andreev approximation), which assumes that excitations are fixed at the Fermi momentum and only Andreev reflections,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 F. Setiawan , Johannes Hofmann

Andreev reflection in graphene is special since it can be of two types- retro or specular. Specular Andreev reflection (SAR) dominates when the position of the Fermi energy in graphene is comparable to or smaller than the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhiram Soori , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Anindya Das , Subroto Mukerjee

Andreev reflection, which corresponds to the tunneling of two electrons from a metallic lead to a superconductor lead as a Cooper pair (or vice versa), can be exploited to measure high frequency noise. A detector is proposed, which consists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. K. T. Nguyen , T. Jonckheere , A. Crépieux , A. V. Nguyen , T. Martin

We study Andreev reflection at an interface between a half metal and a superconductor with spin-orbit interaction. While the absence of minority carriers in the half metal makes singlet Andreev reflection impossible, the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mathias Duckheim , Piet W. Brouwer

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan

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

A graphene sheet partially covered with a bulk superconductor serves as a normal conductor--superconductor (NS) junction, in which electron transport is mainly governed by Andreev reflection (AR). As excess carriers induced over the covered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yositake Takane , Katsuhide Yarimizu , Akinobu Kanda

Andreev reflection at the interface between a ferromagnet and a superconductor has become a foundation of a versatile new technique of measuring the spin polarization of magnetic materials. In this paper we will briefly outline a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 I. I. Mazin , A. A. Golubov , B. Nadgorny

We study tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor (F/S) junctions. We include the effects of spin polarization, interfacial resistance, and Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions. Andreev reflection (AR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a nonlocal quantum transport phenomenon that arises at the interface between a superconductor and two spatially separated metals. In this process, an electron incident from one metal combines with another…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Polireddi Naveen , Abhiram Soori

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