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The ac Josephson effect in hybrid systems of a normal mesoscopic conductor coupled to two superconducting (S) leads is investigated theoretically. A general formula of the ac components of time-dependent current is derived which is valid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Jian Wang

A long phase coherent normal (N) wire between superconductors (S) is characterized by a dense phase dependent Andreev spectrum . We probe this spectrum in a high frequency phase biased configuration, by coupling an NS ring to a multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 F. Chiodi , M. Ferrier , K. Tikhonov , P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkilä , M. Feigelman , S. Guéron , H. Bouchiat

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

The quasi-bound states of a superconducting quantum dot that is weakly coupled to a normal metal appear as resonances in the Andreev reflection probability, measured via the differential conductance. We study the evolution of these Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-14 Shuo Mi , D. I. Pikulin , M. Marciani , C. W. J. Beenakker

When a normal metal $N$ is sandwiched between two superconductors, the energy gaps in the latter act as walls that confine electrons in $N$ in a square-well potential. If the voltage $V$ across $N$ is finite, an electron injected into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Zheyi Zhu , Stephan Kim , Shiming Lei , Leslie M. Schoop , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

We consider a normal-superconducting junction in order to investigate the effect of new physical ingredients on waiting times. First, we study the interplay between Andreev and specular scattering at the interface on the distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 M. Albert , D. Chevallier , P. Devillard

In this work we uncover an interesting quantum plateau behavior for the Andreev reflection between a one-dimensional quantum wire and superconductor. The quantum plateau is achieved by properly tuning the interplay of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

We develop a theory of charge transport along the quantum Hall edge proximitized by a "dirty" superconductor. Disorder randomizes the Andreev reflection rendering the conductance of a proximitized segment a stochastic quantity with zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Zachary M. Raines , Leonid I. Glazman

We consider the linear and non-linear electromagnetic responses of a nanowire connecting two bulk superconductors. Andreev states appearing at a finite phase bias substantially affect the finite-frequency admittance of such a wire junction.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-25 F. Kos , S. E. Nigg , L. I. Glazman

The theory of time-dependent quantum transport addresses the question: How do electrons flow through a junction under the influence of an external perturbation as time goes by? In this paper, we invert this question and search for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

An overview is presented of experiments on ballistic electrical transport in inhomogeneous superconducting systems which are controlled by the process of Andreev reflection. The initial experiments based on the coexistence of a normal phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 T. M. Klapwijk , S. A. Ryabchun

We present a general formulation of the nonlinear, time-dependent current through a small interacting region, where electron energies are changed by time-dependent voltages. An exact solution is obtained for the non-interacting case when…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ned S. Wingreen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Yigal Meir

We study systematically the scattering processes and the conductance spectra in nodal-line semimetalsuperconductor junctions using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory. The coexistence of peculiar quadruple reflections are found,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Qiang Cheng , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

In a point contact NS junction, perfect Andreev reflection occurs over a range of voltages equal to the superconducting energy gap, producing an excess current of $I_{exc} = (4/3)(2e\Delta/h)$. If the superconductor has a finite width,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard Riedel , Philip F. Bagwell

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

Andreev interferometry - the sensitivity of the tunneling current to spatial variations in the local superconducting order at an interface - is proposed as a probe of the spatial structure of the phase correlations in the pseudogap state of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel E. Sheehy , Paul M. Goldbart , Joerg Schmalian , Ali Yazdani

We study Andreev reflection in a ballistic one-dimensional channel coupled in parallel to a superconductor via a tunnel barrier of finite length $L$. The dependence of the low-energy Andreev reflection probability $R_A$ on $L$ reveals the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giorgos Fagas , Grigory Tkachov , Andreas Pfund , Klaus Richter

Crossed Andreev reflection in multiterminal structures in the diffusive regime is addressed within the quasiclassical Keldysh-Usadel formalism. The elastic cotunneling and crossed Andreev reflection of quasiparticles give nonlocal currents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brinkman , A. A. Golubov

We experimentally study electron transport across a single planar junction between the indium electrode and MnTe altermagnet candidate. We confirm standard Ohmic behavior with strictly linear current-voltage curves above the indium critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We have calculated all the components of the current in a short one-dimensional channel between two superconductors for arbitrary voltages and transparencies $D$ of the channel. We demonstrate that in the ballistic limit ($D\simeq 1$), the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. AVERIN , A. BARDAS