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We study the interplay between Andreev (Majorana) bound states that form at the boundary of a (topological) superconductor and a train of microwave pulses. We find that the extra dynamical phase coming from the pulses can shift the phase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Joseph Weston , Benoit Gaury , Xavier Waintal

We study the transport properties of a hybrid nanostructure composed of a ferromagnet, two quantum dots, and a superconductor connected in series. By using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach, we have calculated the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. C. Siqueira , G. G. Cabrera

We compute the effect of a d-wave magnetization (altermagnetism) on the spectrum of bound states (Andreev levels) in a junction between two s-wave superconductors (gap $\Delta_0$, phase difference $\phi$). Compared to a nonmagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , T. Vakhtel

A magnetic impurity on a superconductor induces Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states, detected by tunneling spectroscopy as long-lived quasiparticle excitations inside the superconducting gap. Coupled YSR states constitute basic elements to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Carmen Rubio-Verdú , Javier Zaldívar , Rok Žitko , Jose Ignacio Pascual

One of the salient signatures of Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity is a $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect due to the combination of fermion parity conservation and the presence of a topologically protected odd number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Christian Spånslätt

We present an analysis of the symmetries of the interference pattern of critical currents through a two-dimensional superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor junction, taking into account Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Jeroen Danon , Henri Suominen , Fabrizio Nichele , Morten Kjaergaard , Karsten Flensberg

Superconductors with an odd number of bands crossing the Fermi energy have topologically protected Andreev states at interfaces, including Majorana states in one dimensional geometries. Superconductivity, a low number of 1D channels, large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , H. Suderow , S. Vieira , F. Guinea

We study Josephson junctions made of semiconducting nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, where superconducting correlations are induced by the proximity effect. In the presence of a suitably directed magnetic field, the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Konstantin N. Nesterov , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

A theory of spin polarized tunneling spectroscopy based on a scattering theory is given for tunneling junctions between ferromagnets and d-wave superconductors. The spin filtering effect of an exchange field in the insulator is also…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kashiwaya , Y. Tanaka , N. Yoshida , M. R. Beasley

We analyze Andreev bound states (ABSs) that form in normal sections of a Rashba nanowire that is only partially covered by a superconducting layer. These ABSs are localized close to the ends of the superconducting section and can be pinned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Richard Hess , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In this work, it is considered a nanostructure composed by a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnets and a superconductor. The transport properties of this system are studied within a generalized mean-field approximation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 E. C. Siqueira , P. A. Orellana , A. C. Seridonio , R. C. Cestari , M. S. Figueira , G. G. Cabrera

We theoretically study scattering process and superconducting triplet correlations in a graphene junction comprised of ferromagnet-RSO-superconductor in which RSO stands for a region with Rashba spin orbit interaction. Our results reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Razieh Beiranvand , Hossein Hamzehpour , Mohammad Alidoust

Semiconductor Rashba nanowires are quasi-one dimensional systems that have large spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from a broken inversion symmetry due to an external electric field. There exist parametrized multiband models that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We show that noncollinear Andreev reflections can be induced at interfaces of semiconductor nanowires with spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting and proximity-induced superconductivity. In a noncollinear local Andreev reflection, the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-27 B. H. Wu , W. Yi , J. C. Cao , G. -C. Guo

We find proximity-induced spontaneous spin and electric surface currents, at all temperatures below the superconducting T_c, in an isotropic s-wave superconductor deposited with a thin ferromagnetic metal layer with spin-orbit interaction.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Bobkova , Yu. S. Barash

We study an Andreev quantum dot, that is a quantum dot inserted in a superconducting ring, with several levels or conducting channels. We analyze the degeneracy of the ground state as a function of the phase difference and of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 I. A. Sadovskyy , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism on the surface of a topological insulator. In particular, we investigate how the Andreev-bound states are influenced by the interplay between these phenomena,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Naoto Nagaosa

We analyze the spatial and energy dependence of the local density of states in a SNS junction. We model our system as a one-dimensional tight-binding chain which we solve exactly by numerical diagonalization. We calculate the dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Cristina Bena

A Josephson junction made of a generic magnetic material sandwiched between two conventional superconductors is studied in the ballistic semi-classic limit. The spectrum of Andreev bound states is obtained from the single-valuedness of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-10 François Konschelle , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Ilya V. Tokatly