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Graphene-based Josephson junctions provide a novel platform for studying the proximity effect due to graphene's unique electronic spectrum and the possibility to tune junction properties by gate voltage. Here we describe graphene junctions…

With simple but exactly solvable model, we investigate the supercurrent transferring through the c-axis cuprate superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions with the clean normal metal much thicker than its coherence length. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-12-22 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We consider the proximity effect in multiterminal ferromagnet superconductor (FSF) hybrid structures in which two or three electrodes are connected to a superconductor. We show that two competing effects take place in these systems: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Jirari , R. Mélin , N. Stefanakis

Recently, interest in Superconductor (S)-Normal (N) interfaces was renewed by the observation of exotic proximity effects in various systems, including S/semiconductor, S/ferromagnet, and S/topological insulator. In general, the proximity…

Scattering of electrons due to fractons can result in a resistivity that {\it decreases} with temperature. Such a behavior also appears in real quasicrystals. If this is then attributed to fracton scattering, fracton-superconductivity would…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 K. Moulopoulos , F. Cyrot-Lackmann

We theoretically evaluate changes in the magnetic potential arising from the magnetic field near superconducting thin films. An example of an atom chip based on a three-wire configuration has been simulated in the superconducting and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Cano , B. Kasch , H. Hattermann , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , C. Zimmermann , J. Fortágh

Recent experiment has unveiled an anomalously strong electron-electron attraction in one-dimensional copper-oxide chain Ba$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_{3+\delta}$. While the near-neighbor electron attraction $V$ in the one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-09 Cheng Peng , Yao Wang , Jiajia Wen , Young Lee , Thomas Devereaux , Hong-Chen Jiang

We introduce superconducting proximity effects in Weyl semi-metals (WSM) with broken time reversal symmetry by tunnel coupling one of its surfaces to an s-wave superconductor using the Green's function approach. We find that the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Arijit Kundu , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao

We investigated the local electronic density of states in superconductor-normal metal (Nb-Au) bilayers using a very low temperature (60 mK) STM. High resolution tunneling spectra measured on the normal metal (Au) surface show a clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Gupta , L. Cretinon , N. Moussy , B. Pannetier , H. Courtois

We consider novel unusual effects in superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structures. In particular we analyze the triplet component (TC) of the condensate generated in those systems.This component is odd in frequency and even in the momentum,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

In the quasi-twodimensional (Q2D) electron gas of an InAs channel between an AlSb substrate and superconducting Niobium layers the proximity effect induces a pair potential so that a Q2D mesoscopic superconducting-normal-superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Jacobs , Reiner Kümmel , Hartmut Plehn

Inducing superconductivity in systems with unconventional band structures is a promising approach for realising unconventional superconductivity. Of particular interest are single interface or Josephson Junction architectures involving Weyl…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-12 Robert Dawson , Vivek Aji

Dissipative properties of the electromagnetic environment as well as on-chip RC filtering are shown to suppress random state switchings in the two-junction superconductor(S) - normal metal(N) electron trap. In our experiments, a local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sergey V. Lotkhov , Alexander B. Zorin

We study the electronic density of states in a mesoscopic superconductor near a transparent interface with a ferromagnetic metal. In our tunnel spectroscopy experiment, a substantial density of states is observed at sub-gap energies close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. A. Sillanpaa , T. T. Heikkila , R. K. Lindell , P. J. Hakonen

Emerging in the 1950s, the multiband superconductivity has been considered for a long time as an approximate model in the form of a generalization of the BCS theory to the case of two bands for a more accurate quantitative description of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-05 Y. Yerin , A. N. Omelyanchouk

Semiconductor-based Josephson junctions provide a platform for studying proximity effect due to the possibility of tuning junction properties by gate voltage and large-scale fabrication of complex Josephson circuits. Recently Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini Wickramasinghe , Tri Nguyen , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Javad Shabani

The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , Yu. V. Nazarov

Proximity effects at superconducting interfaces, between different superconductors (S-S') or between superconductors and normal metals (S-N), are fundamental to the performance of superconducting electronics, yet only few experiments have…

There should be no question that magnetism and superconductivity appear in close proximity in many if not most of the unconventional superconductors. These two phases are importantly correlated: the strongest manifestations of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-25 Zhiqiang Wang , Ke Wang , K. Levin

We evaluate the quasiparticle contribution to the frequency shift and relaxation rates of a transmon with the Josephson junctions connecting superconductors that have unequal energy gaps. The gap difference substantially affects the…