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In a Josephson junction (JJ), Cooper pairs are transported via Andreev bound states (ABSs) between superconductors. The ABSs in the weak link of multi-terminal (MT) JJs can coherently hybridize two Cooper pairs among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Ko-Fan Huang , Yuval Ronen , Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Philip Kim

Cooper pair splitters hold utility as a platform for investigating the entanglement of electrons in Cooper pairs, but probing splitters with voltage-biased Ohmic contacts prevents the retention of electrons from split pairs since they can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Damaz de Jong , Christian G. Prosko , Lin Han , Filip K. Malinowski , Yu Liu , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Wolfgang Pfaff

Thermoelectric effect is exploited to optimize the Cooper pair splitting efficiency in a Y-shaped junction, which consists of two normal leads coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor via double noninteracting quantum dots. Here, utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Lin Li , Hong-Gang Luo

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mario F. Borunda , H. Hennig , Eric J. Heller

Unconventional superconductivity often arises from Cooper pairing between neighboring atomic sites, stipulating a characteristic pairing symmetry in the reciprocal space. The twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) presents a new setting where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-15 Sujay Ray , Jeil Jung , Tanmoy Das

We report conductance and supercurrent measurements for InAs single and parallel double quantum dot Josephson junctions contacted with Nb or NbTiN superconducting electrodes. Large superconducting gap energy, high critical field and large…

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

A microscopic analysis of the superconducting quantum critical point realized via a pair-breaking quantum phase transition is presented. Finite temperature crossovers are derived for the electrical conductivity, which is a key probe of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-19 N. Shah , A. V. Lopatin

For the three-terminal NSN device with single-mode normal terminals and without Coulomb blockade, we propose the interpretation of charge transfer process which allows us to consistently characterize the device operation as that of a Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 E. S. Tikhonov , V. S. Khrapai

We report on a ballistic and fully tunable Josephson junction system consisting of two parallel ribbons of graphene in contact with superconducting MoRe. By electrostatic gating of the two individual graphene ribbons we gain control over…

Josephson junctions are typically characterized by a single phase difference across two superconductors. This conventional two-terminal Josephson junction can be generalized to a multi-terminal device where the Josephson energy contains…

We investigate photo assisted electronic transport in a normal-metal/BCS-superconductor junction with a microscopic Hamiltonian approach, for several types of periodic voltage drives applied on the normal-metal side. The time-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-23 B. Bertin-Johannet , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , B. Grémaud , L. Raymond , T. Martin

Junctions composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically proposed as electron beam splitters where incoming electron waves in one GNR can be split coherently into propagating waves in \emph{two} outgoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Sofia Sanz , Nick Papior , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Mads Brandbyge , Thomas Frederiksen

Transportation of Cooper-pairs by a movable single Cooper-pair-box placed between two remote superconductors is shown to establish coherent coupling between them. This coupling is due to entanglement of the movable box with the leads and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Isacsson , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , Y. M. Galperin , M. Jonson

A superconductor is a natural source of spin-entangled spatially separated electron pairs. Although the first Cooper-pair splitter devices have been realized recently, an experimental confirmation of the spin state and the entanglement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Zoltán Scherübl , András Pályi , Szabolcs Csonka

Cooper pairs in the superconductor are a natural source of spin entanglement. The existing proposals of the Cooper pair splitter can only realize a low efficiency of entanglement production, and its size is constrained by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Wei Chen , D. N. Shi , D. Y. Xing

Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We study large arrays of mesoscopic junctions between gapless superconductors where the tunneling processes of both, particle-hole and Cooper, pairs give rise to a strongly retarded effective action which, contrary to the standard case, can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 D. V. Khveshchenko , R. Crooks

Motivated by the recent experiments indicating superconductivity in metal-decorated graphene sheets, we investigate their quasi-particle structure within the framework of an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian augmented by appropriate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-04 Timo Saari , Jouko Nieminen , Arun Bansil