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By investigating the nonequilibrium transport across a metal/superconductor junction in both nonrelativistic and relativistic cases, we reveal that the asymmetric Andreev reflection with anisotropic superconductors is able to induce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu

Iron-based compounds (IBS) display a surprising variety of superconducting properties that seems to arise from the strong sensitivity of these systems to tiny details of the lattice structure. In this respect, systems that become…

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon that holds significant implications for spintronics and superconducting devices. However, its experimental detection and enhancement remain challenging.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Abhiram Soori

Combining the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering matrices with Andreev approximation, we investigated the spin-triplet Andreev reflection (AR) spectra for the interface between half-metallic ferromagnet Co$_{2}$MnSi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Ling Tang

Using the tight binding model and the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study Andreev reflection in graphene-superconductor junction, where graphene has two nonequal Dirac Cones split in energy and therefore time reversal symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Chao Wang , Lin Zhang , Peipei Zhang , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

We study the subgap transport through the antiferromagnet/superconductor (AF/S) and antiferromagnet/superconductor/antiferromagnet (AF/S/AF) junctions controlled by electric field in a generic buckled honeycomb system, such as silicene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

We theoretically demonstrate that a ferromagnetic/superconductor junction on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) has an anisotropic angle-dependent Andreev reflection when the in-plane magnetization has a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-08 Morteza Salehi

Proximity-induced superconductivity in fractional quantum Hall edges is a prerequisite to proposed realizations of parafermion zero-modes. A recent experimental work [G\"{u}l et al., Phys. Rev. X 12, 021057 (2022)] provided evidence for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Noam Schiller , Barak A. Katzir , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Netanel H. Lindner , Yuval Oreg

Electron correlation in a quantum many-body state appears as peculiar scattering behaviour at its boundary, symbolic of which is Andreev reflection at a metal-superconductor interface. Despite being fundamental in nature, dictated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Masayuki Hashisaka , Thibaut Jonckheere , Takafumi Akiho , Satoshi Sasaki , Jerome Rech , Thierry Martin , Koji Muraki

Dynamic conductance spectra are taken from Au/CeCoIn$_5$ point contacts in the Sharvin limit along the (001) and (110) directions. Our conductance spectra, reproducibly obtained over wide ranges of temperature, constitute the cleanest data…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Wan Kyu Park , Laura H. Greene , John L. Sarrao , Joe D. Thompson

The accurate and proper form of electron-hole excitations and corresponding Dirac-like spinors of monolayer molybdenum disulfide superconductor are exactly obtained. Andreev reflection and resulting subgap conductance in a $MoS_2$-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou , S. F. Ebadzadeh

We develop a new theoretical approach for modelling a wide range of semiconductor-superconductor structures with arbitrary potential barriers and a spatially-dependent superconducting order parameter. We demonstrate asymmetry in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-14 Shlomi Bouscher , Roni Winik , Alex Hayat

We study Andreev reflection at an interface between a half metal and a superconductor with spin-orbit interaction. While the absence of minority carriers in the half metal makes singlet Andreev reflection impossible, the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mathias Duckheim , Piet W. Brouwer

Andreev reflection-where an electron in a normal metal backscatters off a superconductor into a hole-forms the basis of low energy transport through superconducting junctions. Andreev reflection in confined regions gives rise to discrete…

We propose a universal method to detect the specular Andreev reflection taking the simple two dimensional Weyl nodal-line semimetal-superconductor double-junction structure as an example. The quasiclassical quantization conditions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study resonant tunneling through a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene as a function of the system parameters. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

We report tunable crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) in a superconductor sandwiched between two antiferromagnetic layers. We consider recent examples of two-dimensional magnets with hexagonal lattices, where gate voltages control the carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-02 Martin F. Jakobsen , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We theoretically study the Andreev reflection (AR) in AA-stacked bilayer graphene/superconductor (AABG/SC) junction. AABG has a linear gapless energy band with two shifted Dirac cones and the electronic states are described by the cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

We theoretically investigate the Andreev reflection of the pseudospin-1 Dirac fermions with either the $\pm U$-type or the $S_z$-type mass term. For the $\pm U$-type fermions, it is found that the Andreev reflection probability at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 W. Zeng , R. Shen

We present an experimental study of inverted InAs/GaSb composite quantum wells in the hybridization regime and contacted by superconducting electrodes. A front gate is used to vary the Fermi level into the mini-gap, where recent experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivan Knez , Rui-Rui Du , Gerard Sullivan