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The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , B. Trauzettel

We perform a magneto-infrared spectroscopy study of the semiconductor to semimetal transition of InAs/GaSb double quantum wells from the normal to the inverted state. We show that owing to the low carrier density of our samples (approaching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Y. Jiang , S. Thapa , G. D. Sanders , C. J. Stanton , Q. Zhang , J. Kono , W. K. Lou , K. Chang , S. D. Hawkins , J. F. Klem , W. Pan , D. Smirnov , Z. Jiang

Introduction of a Josephson field effect transistor (JoFET) concept sparked active research on proximity effects in semiconductors. Induced superconductivity and electrostatic control of critical current has been demonstrated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhong Wan , Aleksandr Kazakov , Michael J. Manfra , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Leonid P. Rokhinson

Quantum spin Hall devices with edges much longer than several microns do not display ballistic transport: that is, their measured conductances are much less than $e^2/h$ per edge. We imaged edge currents in InAs/GaSb quantum wells with long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Eric M. Spanton , Katja C. Nowack , Lingjie Du , Gerard Sullivan , Rui-Rui Du , Kathryn A. Moler

We calculate the Andreev spectroscopy between a ferromagnetic lead and Bi/Ni bilayer system for three types of superconducting states, including ABM state, ABM state mixing with S-wave state, ABM state mixing with pz-wave state. Among them,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-24 Xin Shang , Haiwen Liu , Ke Xia

The possibility of inducing superconductivity in type-I Weyl semimetal through coupling its surface to a superconductor was investigated. A single crystal of NbP, grown by chemical vapor transport method, was carefully characterized by XRD,…

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are not intrinsically superconducting but they can carry a supercurrent when connected to superconducting electrodes. This supercurrent is mainly transmitted by discrete entangled electron-hole states confined to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Jean-Damien Pillet , Charis Quay , Pascal Morfin , Cristina Bena , A. Levy Yeyati , Philippe Joyez

The proximity-induced superconducting state in the 3-dimensional topological insulator HgTe has been studied using electronic transport of a normal metal-superconducting point contact as a spectroscopic tool (Andreev point contact…

We report magnetotransport measurements in the NbN/ magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (MBT)/ NbN junction at low temperature. At 10 mK, the nonlinear current-voltage characteristic of the junction shows a tunneling behavior,…

Being encouraged by the interplay between topology, superconductivity and magnetism, we experimentally investigate charge transport through the interface between the Nb superconductor and the time-reversal symmetry breaking Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 O. O. Shvetsov , Yu. S. Barash , S. V. Egorov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The properties of a semiconductor get drastically modified when the crystal point group symmetry is broken under an arbitrary strain. We investigate the family of semiconductors consisting of GaAs, GaSb, InAs and InSb, considering their…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Aslı Çakan , Cem Sevik , Ceyhun Bulutay

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

Binary compounds of SnT family(T= As, Sb, Te, S, Se, P) exhibit novel properties like superconductivity, topologically protected states etc. Some of these compounds crystallize in NaCl type structure or in layered structure, both of which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-30 Sandeep Howlader , Nikhlesh Mehta , M. M. Sharma , V. P. S. Awana , Goutam Sheet

We study the proximity-induced superconducting state in a general bilayer -- conventional $s$-wave superconductor hybrid structure. For the bilayer we include a general parabolic dispersion, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and finite layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate transport through hybrid structures consisting of two normal metal leads connected via tunnel barriers to one common superconducting electrode. We find clear evidence for the occurrence of non-local Andreev reflection and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Russo , M. Kroug , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

We study the charge character of the Andreev bound states (ABSs) in one-dimensional topological superconductors with spatial inversion symmetry (SIS) breaking. Despite the absence of the SIS, we show a hidden symmetry for the Bogoliubov de…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-10 Xiong-Jun Liu

Superconductor/semiconductor-nanowire hybrid structures can serve as versatile building blocks to realize Majorana circuits or superconducting qubits based on quantized levels such as Andreev qubits. For all these applications it is…

We consider transport in a diffusive cross-shaped Andreev interferometer geometry, both theoretically and experimentally. A strong and unexpected modulation of the conductance with the superconducting phase is found. In particular, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Belzig , R. Shaikaidarov , V. V. Petrashov , Yu. V. Nazarov

The two-dimensional electron gas at the LaTiO3/SrTiO3 or LaAlO3/SrTiO3 oxide interfaces becomes superconducting when the carrier density is tuned by gating. The measured resistance and superfluid density reveal an inhomogeneous…