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We fabricate twisted double bilayer graphene devices with zero twist angle and a set of local top and bottom gates aligned perpendicularly to each other. A 1D PN junction can be electrostatically defined when the gate voltages applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Shiyu Guo , Jeongsoo Park , Jack Tavakley , Daochen Long , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

We study the supercurrent in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor graphene junction. In contrast to its metallic counterpart, the oscillating critical current in our setup decays only weakly upon increasing exchange field and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Asle Sudbø

Nonreciprocal superconducting devices have attracted growing interest in recent years as they potentially enable directional charge transport for applications in superconducting quantum circuits. Specifically, the superconducting diode…

Thermoelectric effect generating electricity from thermal gradient and vice versa appears in numerous generic applications. Recently, an original prospect of thermoelectricity arising from the nonlocal Cooper pair splitting (CPS) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Z. B. Tan , A. Laitinen , N. S. Kirsanov , A. Galda , M. Haque , A. Savin , D. S. Golubev , V. M. Vinokur , G. B. Lesovik , P. J. Hakonen

As most materials available in macroscopic quantities, graphene appears in a polycrystalline form and thus contains grain boundaries. In the present work, the effect of uniaxial strain on the electronic transport properties through graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Viet Hung Nguyen , Trinh Xuan Hoang , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhiyu Dong , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jason Alicea

We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure and vibrational modes, in a system of graphene bilayers and trilayers intercalated with alkaline earth atoms, are resented. It is found that, in similarity to the case of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-12 R. A. Jishi , D. M. Guzman , H. M. Alyahyaei

Superconductivity in a partially filled flat band presents a vexing conceptual hurdle because the absence of a Fermi surface precludes a weak-coupling regime where one can extend insights from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer picture of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Tamaghna Hazra , Nishchhal Verma , Jörg Schmalian

We study the critical Josephson current flowing through a double quantum dot weakly coupled to two superconducting leads. We use analytical as well as numerical methods to investigate this setup in the limit of small and large bandwidth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 B. Probst , F. Domínguez , A. Schroer , A. Levy Yeyati , P. Recher

We observe conductivity oscillations with aperiodic spacing to only one side of the tunneling current in a dual-gated graphene field effect transistor with an n-p-n type potential barrier. The spacing and width of these oscillatoins were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Milan Begliarbekov , Onejae Sul , Nan Ai , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Stefan Strauf

Cooper pair splitting (CPS) is a process in which the electrons of naturally occurring spin-singlet pairs in a superconductor are spatially separated using two quantum dots. Here we investigate the evolution of the conductance correlations…

This review discusses the electronic properties and the prospective research directions of superconductor-graphene heterostructures. The basic electronic properties of graphene are introduced to highlight the unique possibility of combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Gil-Ho Lee , Hu-Jong Lee

The proper understanding of semiconductor devices begins at the metal-semiconductor interface. The metal/semiconductor interface itself can also be an important device, as Schottky junctions often forms when the doping in the semiconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dhiraj Sinha , Ji Ung Lee

We theoretically study the spin-resolved subgap transport properties of a Cooper pair splitter based on a triple quantum dot attached to superconducting and ferromagnetic leads. Using the Keldysh Green's function formalism, we analyze the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 K. Bocian , W. Rudzinski , I. Weymann

The transport properties of a bilayer graphene are studied theoretically within a self-consistent Born approximation. The electronic spectrum is composed of $k$-linear dispersion in the low-energy region and $k$-square dispersion as in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Graphene nano-ribbons junctions based electronic devices are proposed in this Letter. Non-equilibrium Green function calculations show that nano-ribbon junctions tailored from single layer graphene with different edge shape and width can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Zhiping Xu

We discuss coherent transport of Cooper pairs through a Cooper pair shuttle. We analyze both the DC and AC Josephson effect in the two limiting cases where the charging energy $E_C$ is either much larger or much smaller than the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessandro Romito , Simone Montangero , Rosario Fazio