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We study crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) of electrons or holes in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal junctions and highlight some very strong effects of the underlying lattice. In particular, we demonstrate that for sharp interfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 François Crépin , Hans Hettmansperger , Patrik Recher , Björn Trauzettel

Crossed Andreev reflections and cotunneling occur between two neighbouring superconductor- normal metal or superconducting-ferromagnet interfaces. Previous works assumed a clean BCS superconductor. Here the calculation of the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Feinberg

At a normal-metal/superconductor interface, an incident electron from the normal-metal (N) side can be normally reflected as an electron or Andreev reflected as a hole. We show that pronounced lateral shifts along the interface between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate the Majorana physics and its effect on the electron transport in the non-topological superconductor(NS)-topological superconductor(TS) double junctions of a ring geometry. We find that, depending on the ratio between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Minchul Lee , Heunghwan Khim , Mahn-Soo Choi

We propose a novel method for the generation of the transverse valley currents, which is based on the pure crossed Andreev reflection (pCAR) in the superconducting hybrid junctions composed of the gapped $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 W. Zeng , R. Shen

Crossed Andreev reflection in a lateral spin valve geometry device is an aspect of considerable recent interest, particularly with regards to Cooper pair splitting experiments to realize solid state quantum entanglement. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-29 James Luke Webb , Bryan Hickey , Gavin Burnell

We theoretically investigate the quantum transports in a junction between a superconductor and a silicene nanoribbon, under the effect of a magnetic exchange field. We find that for a narrow nanoribbon of silicene, remarkable crossed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Kangkang Li , Yan-Yang Zhang

By investigating the nonequilibrium transport across a metal/superconductor junction in both nonrelativistic and relativistic cases, we reveal that the asymmetric Andreev reflection with anisotropic superconductors is able to induce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu

Using the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study the Andreev reflection in a Y-shaped graphene-superconductor device by tight-binding model. Considering both the zigzag and armchair terminals, we confirm that the zigzag terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Chao Wang , Youlian Zou , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

We propose a phenomenological description of electronic transport through a normal metal/superconductor interface of arbitrary transparency, which accounts for the presence of electron-electron interaction in the normal metal. The effect of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Man , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We construct high-quality graphene-based van der Waals devices with narrow superconducting niobium nitride (NbN) electrodes, in which superconductivity and robust fqH coexist. We find crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) across the…

A short superconducting segment can couple attached quantum dots via elastic co-tunneling (ECT) and crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). Such coupled quantum dots can host Majorana bound states provided that the ratio between CAR and ECT can…

We study the subgap transport through a ferromagnet/Ising superconductor/ferromagnet (F/ISC/F) junction by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. It is found that the crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) and local Andreev reflection (LAR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun , Qiang Cheng

Nonlocal currents, in devices where two normal metal terminals are contacted to a superconductor, are determined using the circuit theory of mesoscopic superconductivity. We calculate the conductance associated with crossed Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-26 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig

We report on electronic transport properties of mesoscopic superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structures. Two ferromagnetic iron leads form planar tunnel contacts to a superconducting aluminum wire, where the distance of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) in metallic nanostructures, a possible basis for solid-state electron entangler devices, is usually investigated by detecting non-local voltages in multi-terminal superconductor/normal metal devices. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 A. Kleine , A. Baumgartner , J. Trbovic , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin , C. Schoenenberger

We theoretically analyze non-local effects in electron transport across three-terminal ballistic normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures with spin-active interfaces. Subgap electrons entering S-electrode from one N-metal may form…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-12-11 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We report the study of ballistic transport in normal metal/graphene/superconductor junctions in edge-contact geometry. While in the normal state, we have observed Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonances suggesting that charge carriers travel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 P. Pandey , R. Kraft , R. Krupke , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau