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A single static magnetic impurity in a fully-gapped superconductor leads to formation of an intragap quasiparticle bound state. At temperatures much below the superconducting transition, the energy relaxation and spin dephasing of the state…

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The thermoelectric performance of a topological Josephson nonlocal heat engine is thoroughly investigated. The nonlocal response is obtained by using a normal metal probe coupled with only one of the proximized helical edges in the middle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio

We discuss the nonlinear current of an interacting quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs with applied voltage and temperature differences. Due to the particle-hole symmetry introduced by the superconducting lead, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We investigate nonequilibrium effects in the transport of interacting electrons in quantum conductors, proposing the nonlocal thermoelectric response as a direct indicator of the presence of interactions, nonthermal states and the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Alessandro Braggio , Matteo Carrega , Björn Sothmann , Rafael Sánchez

We review some recent advances in studies of phase-coherent thermoelectric effects in superconducting hybrid structures such as, e.g., Andreev interferometers. We elucidate a number of mechanisms of electron-hole symmetry breaking in such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-18 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Efficient heat management at cryogenic temperatures is crucial for superconducting quantum technologies. This study demonstrates the controlled manipulation of the heat flow and heat rectification through an asymmetric superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 F. Antola , A. Braggio , G. De Simoni , F. Giazotto

A discrete charge transfer in a small tunnel junction where Coulomb interactions are important can excite electron-hole pairs near the Fermi level. We use a simple model to study the associated nonequilibrium properties and found two novel…

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We discuss inherent thermometry in a Superconductor - Normal metal - Superconductor tunnel junction. In this configuration, the energy selectivity of single-particle tunneling can provide a significant electron cooling, depending on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Hervé Courtois , Sukumar Rajauria , Philippe Gandit , Frank Hekking , Bernard Pannetier

We demonstrate that thermoelectric currents in superconducting bilayers with a spin-active interface are controlled by the two competing processes. On one hand, spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering at such interface generates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-16 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate the thermal transport properties of a temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junction composed of two different superconductors. We show that this simple system can provide a large negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Riccardo Bosisio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Attaching a superconductor in good contact with a normal metal makes rise to a proximity effect where the superconducting correlations leak into the normal metal. An additional contact close to the first one makes it possible to carry a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-25 Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We argue that spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering may generate electron-hole imbalance in superconducting structures, such as, e.g., superconducting-normal hybrids with spin-active interfaces. We elucidate a transparent physical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-03 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches to enhance interfacial thermal transport remain scarce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yizhe Liu , Bo Sun

In this paper, we examine the conditions under which the nonlinear transport theory is inescapable, when a correlated quantum dot is symmetrically coupled to two leads submitted to temperature and voltage biases. By detailed numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 J. Azema , P. Lombardo , A. -M. Daré

Superconducting interfaces have recently been demonstrated to contain a rich variety of effects that give rise to sizable thermoelectric responses and unexpected thermal properties, despite traditionally being considered poor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 L. Arrachea , A. Braggio , P. Burset , E. J. H. Lee , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Sánchez

Thermoelectricity is generally understood as a classical effect emerging from energy-dependent transport asymmetries. Here we uncover a purely quantum mechanism, where a superconducting S-I-S' tunnel junction in thermal equilibrium develops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Filippo Antola , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

A detailed investigation of the non-equilibrium steady-state electric and thermoelectric transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to the normal metallic and s-wave superconducting reservoirs (N-QD-S) are provided within the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Sachin Verma , Ajay

Conventional and spin-related thermoelectric effects in electronic transport through a nanoscopic system exhibiting magnetic anisotropy $-$with both uniaxial and transverse components$-$ are studied theoretically in the linear response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnaś

A Josephson diode is a superconducting circuit element that enables non-reciprocal transport, allowing a dissipationless supercurrent to preferentially flow in a single direction. Existing methods for achieving the required symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 David Scheer , Rubén Seoane Souto , Fabian Hassler , Jeroen Danon