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We investigate the noise current in a thermally biased tunnel junction between two superconductors with different zero-temperature gaps. When the Josephson effect is suppressed, this structure can support a nonlinear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

In a previous work, we predicted that a thermally biased tunnel junction between two different superconductors can display a thermoelectric effect of nonlinear nature in the temperature gradient, under proper conditions. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport, and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron-hole symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-08 S. Kolenda , P. Machon , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly-perfect particle-hole (PH) symmetry around their Fermi surface [1, 2]. Despite being initially considered paradoxical [3], thermophase effects [4-8] and linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity combined with Keldysh technique we investigate large thermoelectric effect in multiterminal ballistic normal-superconducting (NS) hybrid structures. We argue that this effect is caused by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Thermoelectric effects in normal metals and superconductors are usually very small due to the presence of electron-hole symmetry. Here, we show that superconducting junctions brought out of equilibrium manifest a sizable bipolar…

Not so long ago, thermoelectricity in superconductors was believed to be possible only by breaking explicitly the particle-hole symmetry. Recently, it has been theoretically predicted that a superconducting tunnel junction can develop…

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Thermoelectricity in superconducting tunnel junctions has always been studied under the hypothesis of equilibrium between the cold side and the thermal bath, usually in the linear regime. We define a more complete out-of-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Leonardo Lucchesi , Federico Paolucci

We investigate the minimal requirements that induce a nonreciprocal response to temperature differences in a mesoscopic electronic conductor. We identify two distinct mechanisms involved in electron-electron interactions, namely inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 José Balduque , Rafael Sánchez

We theoretically study the behavior of the critical current of a thermally-biased tunnel Josephson junction with a particular design, in which the electrodes of the junction are enclosed in two different superconducting loops pierced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-20 Claudio Guarcello , Roberta Citro , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

Recent studies have shown the potential for bipolar thermoelectricity in superconducting tunnel junctions with asymmetric energy gaps. The thermoelectric performance of these systems is significantly impacted by the inverse proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 A. Hijano , F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto , A. Braggio

Thermoelectrical properties are frequently used to characterize the materials and endow the free energy from wasted heat for useful purposes. Here, we show that linear thermoelectric effects in tunnel junctions with Fe-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-02 Claudio Guarcello , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto , Roberta Citro

We investigate the thermoelectric response of a coherent conductor in contact with a scanning probe. Coupling to the probe has the dual effect of allowing for the controlled local injection of heat currents into the system and of inducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Rafael Sánchez , Cosimo Gorini , Geneviève Fleury

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a hybrid nanodevice composed by a 2D carbon based material and a superconductor. This system presents nonlinear bipolar thermoelectricity as induced by the spontaneous breaking of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Lorenzo Bernazzani , Giampiero Marchegiani , Francesco Giazotto , Stefano Roddaro , Alessandro Braggio

We discuss the charge and the spin tunneling currents between two Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, where one density of states is spin-split. In the presence of a large temperature bias across the junction, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

We develop a theory of far from the equilibrium transport in arrays of tunnel junctions. We find that if the rate of the electron-electron interactions exceeds the rate of the electron-phonon energy exchange, the energy relaxation ensuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , V. M. Vinokur , T. I. Baturina

We report on large thermoelectric effects in superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions in proximity contact with the ferromagnetic insulator europium sulfide. The combination of a spin-splitting field and spin-polarized tunnel conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-14 S. Kolenda , C. Sürgers , G. Fischer , D. Beckmann

Charge and heat transport through a single molecule tunnel-coupled to external normal electrodes have been studied. The molecule with sufficiently strong interaction between lectrons and vibrational internal degrees of freedom can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Karol Izydor Wysokinski

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
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