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Fermi arc surface states are the hallmark of Weyl semimetals, whose identification is usually challenged by their coexistence with gapless bulk states. Surface transport measurements by fabricating setups on the sample boundary provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We study the Andreev reflection (AR) in a three terminal mesoscopic hybrid system, in which two ferromagnets (F$_1$ and F$_2$) are coupled to a superconductor (S) through a quantum dot (QD). By using non-equilibrium Green function, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

Andreev reflection spectroscopy of ferromagnet/superconductor (FS) junctions is an important probe of spin polarization. We theoretically investigate spin-polarized transport in FS junctions in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-24 Petra Högl , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić , Jaroslav Fabian

Andreev reflection is a smart tool to investigate the spin polarisation P of the current through point contacts between a superconductor and a ferromagnet. We compare different models to extract P from experimental data and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Bouvron , M. Stokmaier , M. Marz , G. Goll

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann

The Andreev reflection (AR) spectroscopy has been used to probe mutual influence of superconducting pairing and ferromagnetic correlations in contacts of low-temperature superconductor (S), Pb, and half-metallic ferromagnetic,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Krivoruchko , V. Yu. Tarenkov , A. I. D'yachenko , V. N. Varyukhin

We study the Andreev reflections (ARs) at the interface of the type-II Weyl semimetal-superconductor junctions and find double ARs when the superconductor is put in the Weyl semimetal band tilting direction, which is similar to the double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

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

Andreev reflection at the interface between a half-metallic ferromagnet and a spin-singlet superconductor is possible only if it is accompanied by a spin flip. Here we calculate the Andreev reflection amplitudes for the case that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Joern N. Kupferschmidt , Piet W. Brouwer

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

We present a theory of Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double junction system. The spin polarized quasiparticles penetrate to the superconductor in the range of penetration depth from the interface by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Taro Yamashita , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

In tunneling spectroscopy studies of ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) junctions, the effects of spin polarization, Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions, and interfacial resistance play a crucial role. We study the low…

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

An incoming electron is reflected back as a hole at a normal-metal-superconductor interface, a process known as Andreev reflection. We predict that there exists a universal transverse shift in this process due to the effect of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We analyze the change in the resistance of a junction between a diffusive ferromagnetic (F) wire and normal metal electrode, due to the onset of superconductivity (S) in the latter and a double Andreev scattering process leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir I. Fal'ko , A. F. Volkov , C. Lambert

Andreev reflection (AR) refers to the electron-hole conversion at the normal metal-superconductor interface. In a three-dimensional metal with spherical Fermi surface, retro (specular) AR can occur with the sign reversal of all three (a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-07 Wei Luo , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Combining the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering matrices with Andreev approximation, we investigated the spin-triplet Andreev reflection (AR) spectra for the interface between half-metallic ferromagnet Co$_{2}$MnSi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Ling Tang

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

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

Andreev reflection in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions is derived in a regime in which Zeeman splitting dominates the response of the superconductor to an applied magnetic field. Spin-up and spin-down Andreev reflections are shown to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Mélin

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is an intriguing effect that occurs in a normal-superconductor-normal junction. In CAR, an incoming electron from one terminal is coherently scattered as an outgoing hole into the other terminal. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Jie Liu , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang
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