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We investigate the Cooper-pair propagation and the proximity effect in graphene under conditions in which the distance L between superconducting electrodes is much larger than the width W of the contacts. In the case of undoped graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Gonzalez , E. Perfetto

Splitting of Cooper pairs has recently been realized experimentally for s-wave Cooper pairs. A split Cooper pair represents an entangled two-electron pair state which has possible application in on-chip quantum computation. Likewise the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 H. Soller , A. Komnik

This letter is devoted to the optimization of the Cooper pair splitting efficiency in a Y-shaped junction. The latter consists of two quantum dots, one superconducting and two normal leads. We tailor the bias in the two normal leads such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a "side-contact" geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Xiang-Guo Li , Iek-Heng Chu , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

Unipolar transport is demonstrated in a bilayer graphene with a series of p-n junctions and is controlled by electrostatic biasing by a comb-shaped top gate. The OFF state is induced by multiple barriers in the p-n junctions, where the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Hisao Miyazaki , Song-Lin Li , Shu Nakaharai , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

We propose that a device composed of two vertically stacked monolayer graphene Josephson junctions can be used for Cooper pair splitting. The hybridization of the Andreev bound states of the two Josephson junction can facilitate non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Eduárd Zsurka , Noel Plaszkó , Péter Rakyta , Andor Kormányos

We present transport measurements on a bilayer graphene sheet with homogeneous back gate and split top gate. The electronic transport data indicates the capability to direct electron flow through graphene nanostructures purely defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Dröscher , C. Barraud , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We investigate transport properties of a double quantum dot based Cooper pair splitter, where the superconducting lead consists of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. The proposed device can be used to explore the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-08 Rakesh P. Tiwari , W. Belzig , Manfred Sigrist , C. Bruder

Graphane is a semiconductor with an energy gap, obtained from hydrogenation of the two-dimensional grapheme sheet. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of doping graphane, p and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 B. Gharekhanlou , S. B. Tousaki , S. Khorasani

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

A strong low-temperature enhancement of the tunneling conductance between graphene bilayers has been reported recently, and interpreted as a signature of equilibrium electron-hole pairing, first predicted in bilayers more than forty years…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dmitry K. Efimkin , G. William Burg , Emanuel Tutuc , Allan H. MacDonald

The interplay between quantum Hall states and Cooper pairs is usually hindered by the suppression of the superconducting state due to the strong magnetic fields needed to observe the quantum Hall effect. From this point of view graphene is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 Lucian Covaci , Francois Peeters

We report a theoretical study suggesting a novel type of electronic switching effect, driven by the geometrical reconstruction of nanoscale graphene-based junctions. We considered junction struc- tures which have alternative metastable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Kawai , M. Poetschke , Y. Miyamoto , C. G. Rocha , S. Roche , G. Cuniberti

We discuss a few situations related to non separable correlations in multiterminal hybrid structures. We show that the existence of such correlations can modify the strength of the gap of the superconductor. We discuss linear combinations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin

Hybrid devices combining quantum dots with superconductors are important building blocks of conventional and topological quantum-information experiments. A requirement for the success of such experiments is to understand the various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Zoltán Scherübl , András Pályi , Szabolcs Csonka

New generation of Cooper pair splitters defined on hybrid nanostructures are devices with high tunable coupling parameters. Transport measurements through these devices revealed clear signatures of interference effects and motivated us to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Fernando Domínguez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

We investigate quantum transport in a normal/superconductor graphene heterostructure, including the possibility of an anisotropic pairing potential in the superconducting region. We find that under certain circumstances, the conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

A superconductor connected to normal leads allows to generate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs by Cooper pair splitting. It has been realized with quantum dots either defined in carbon nanotubes or InAs nanowires. After establishing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Soller

One of the outstanding questions in the study of twisted bilayer graphene -- from both experimental and theoretical points of view -- is the nature of its superconducting phase. In this work we perform a comprehensive synthesis of existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-21 Ethan Lake , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil