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Andreev reflection spectroscopy has been performed on the heavy-fermion superconductor (HFS) CeCoIn$_5$ single crystals along three different crystallographic orientations, (001), (110), and (100), using Au tips as counter-electrodes.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-09 Wan Kyu Park , Laura H. Greene , John L. Sarrao , Joe D. Thompson

We show that spin-polarized electron transmission across semiconductor/superconductor (Sm/S) hybrid structures depends sensitively on the degree of spin polarization as well as the strengths of potential and spin-flip scattering at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , S. Das Sarma

We develop a quasiclassical theory of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes. Provided tunneling interface resistance between one superconducting electrode and the normal metal strongly exceeds two others, significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin , L. S Kuzmin

Josephson effect in short ballistic SINIS and SIFIS double-tunnel junctions, consisting of clean superconductors (S), a normal metal (N) or metallic ferromagnet (F), and insulating interfaces (I) is studied. For SINIS double-tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Radović , I. Petković , N. M. Chtchelkatchev

The Josephson current in S-F-S junctions is described by taking into account different reflection (transmission) amplitudes for quasiparticles with spin up and down. We show that the 0-$\pi$ transition in the junctions can take place at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yu. S. Barash , I. V. Bobkova

Novel fermions with a pseudospin-1 structure can be realized as emergent quasiparticles in condensed matter systems. Here, we investigate its unusual properties during the Andreev reflection at a normal-metal/superconductor (NS) interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xiaolong Feng , Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Zhongshui Ma , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang , Shengyuan A. Yang

We experimentally investigate charge transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and a three-dimensional WTe$_2$ Weyl semimetal. In addition to classical Andreev reflection, we observe sharp non-periodic subgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 A. Kononov , O. O. Shvetsov , S. V. Egorov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We report on the experimental investigation of electronic transport in superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structures. Our samples consist of two ferromagnetic iron leads forming planar tunnel contacts to a superconducting aluminum wire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Beckmann H. v. Löhneysen

The crossed Andreev reflection in a hybrid nanostructure consisting of a d-wave superconductor and two quantum wires is theoretically studied. When the (110) oriented surface of the superconductor is in contact with the wires parallel and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Takahashi , T. Yamashita , S. Maekawa

We present a theory of the current-voltage characteristics in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions. By solving the time-dependent Usadel equations we are able to describe the phase-coherent transport for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , J. Hammer , J. Kopu , J. K. Viljas , M. Eschrig

Andreev reflection (AR) in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions is an indispensable spectroscopic tool for measuring spin polarization. We study theoretically how the presence of a thin semiconducting interface in such junctions, inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 Andreas Costa , Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the Andreev reflections (ARs) at the interface of the type-II Weyl semimetal-superconductor junctions and find double ARs when the superconductor is put in the Weyl semimetal band tilting direction, which is similar to the double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

Ag/BSCCO and Fe/Ag/BSCCO planar tunnel junctions were constructed in order to study experimentally the effect of an exchange potential on the spin polarized current transported through Andreev bound states appearing at the interface with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Freamat , K. -W. Ng

The tunneling spectrum of an electron and a hole in a superlattice of NS junctions is computed using the BTK approach and the transfer matrix method. It shows sharp resonances at some energies above the superconducting gap. The sharper the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-20 W. LiMing , Jiayun Luo , Xiaoxue Cai , Ke Sha , Liangbin Hu

We investigate the effect of interactions on Andreev current at a normal-superconducting junction when the normal phase is a Luttinger liquid with repulsive interactions. In particular, we study the system of a finite sized carbon nanotube…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Smitha Vishveshwara , Cristina Bena , Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher

By combining the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics with the Bogoliubov-De Gennes equation of superconductivity we investigate the electron-hole conversion at a normal-metal--superconductor interface in graphene. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker

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

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 investigate the Andreev tunneling and Josephson current in graphene irradiated with high-frequency linearly polarized light. The corresponding stroboscopic dynamics can be solved using Floquet mechanism which results in an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-21 Debabrata Sinha , Satyaki Kar

We investigate sub-gap transport through a single-level quantum dot tunnel coupled to one superconducting and two normal-conducting leads. Despite the tendency of a large charging energy to suppress the equilibrium proximity effect, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-12 David Futterer , Michele Governale , Marco G. Pala , Jürgen König