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We study Andreev conversion in clean nanostructures containing an interface between graphene in the quantum Hall (QH) state and a superconductor, focusing on the lowest Landau level. First, several graphene nanostructures formed from zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Alexey Bondarev , William H. Klein , Harold U. Baranger

We study clean, edge-contacted graphene/superconductor interfaces in both the quantum Hall (QH) and zero field regimes. We find that Andreev reflection is substantially stronger than at an interface with a semiconductor two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Alexey Bondarev , Gu Zhang , Harold U. Baranger

Quantum Hall-superconductor heterostructures provide possible platforms for intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computing. Motivated by several recent experiments that successfully integrated these phases, we investigate transport through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yuchen Tang , Christina Knapp , Jason Alicea

We study the reflection of electrons and quasiparticles on point-contact interfaces between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and normal metals (leads), as well as interfaces between two FQH states with mismatched filling fractions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

We investigate the interplay between the quantum Hall (QH) effect and superconductivity in InAs surface quantum well (SQW)/NbTiN heterostructures using a quantum point contact (QPC). We use QPC to control the proximity of the edge states to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Mehdi Hatefipour , Joseph J. Cuozzo , Ido Levy , William M. Strickland , Dylan Langone , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

We investigate the influence of the superconducting (S) proximity effect in the quantum Hall (QH) regime by computing the charge conductance flowing through a graphene-based QH/S/QH junction. This situation offers the exciting possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Pierre Carmier

The quantum Hall (QH) effect supports a set of chiral edge states at the boundary of a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system. A superconductor (SC) contacting these states induces correlation of the quasi-particles in the dissipationless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Gil-Ho Lee , Ko-Fan Huang , Dmitri K. Efetov , Di S. Wei , Sean Hart , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Amir Yacoby , Philip Kim

Coherent charge transport along ballistic paths can be introduced into graphene by Andreev reflection, for which an electron reflects from a superconducting contact as a hole, while a Cooper pair is transmitted. We use a liquid-helium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Bhandari , G. -H. Lee , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , R. M. Westervelt

We investigate the superconducting proximity effect through graphene in the long diffusive junction limit, at low and high magnetic field. The interface quality and sample phase coherence lead to a zero resistance state at low temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Katsuyoshi Komatsu , Chuan Li , S. Autier-Laurent , H. Bouchiat , S. Gueron

We study the crossed Andreev effects in two-dimensional conductor/superconductor hybrid systems under a perpendicular magnetic field. Both a graphene/superconductor hybrid system and an electron gas/superconductor one are considered. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Zhe Hou , Yanxia Xing , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We have realized an integer quantum Hall system with superconducting contacts by connecting graphene to niobium electrodes. Below their upper critical field of 4 tesla, an integer quantum Hall effect coexists with superconductivity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Peter Rickhaus , Markus Weiss , Laurent Marot , Christian Schönenberger

We consider a quantum Hall (QH) region in contact with a superconductor (SC), i.e., a QH-SC junction. Due to successive Andreev reflections, the QH-SC interface hosts hybridized electron and hole edge states called chiral Andreev edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Anthony David , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

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

Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures confining a high-mobility two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) have emerged as a compelling platform for hybrid superconductor(S)-semiconductor(Sm) quantum devices. Here, we investigate the low-temperature…

We simulate a hybrid superconductor-graphene device in the quantum Hall regime to identify the origin of downstream resistance oscillations in a recent experiment [Zhao et. al. Nature Physics 16, (2020)]. In addition to the previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Antonio L. R. Manesco , Ian Matthias Flór , Chun-Xiao Liu , Anton R. Akhmerov

An important route of engineering topological states and excitations is to combine superconductors (SC) with the quantum Hall (QH) effect, and over the past decade, significant progress has been made in this direction. While typical…

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

Recent experiments have shown that the edge states of a quantum Hall sample can be coupled to a superconductor, so that incoming electrons in the edge states can be Andreev converted by the superconductor as coherent superpositions of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Benjamin Roussel , Pablo Burset , Christian Flindt

Studying the interplay between superconductivity and quantum magnetotransport in two-dimensional materials has been a topic of interest in recent years. Towards such a goal it is important to understand the impact of magnetic field on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Scott Mills , Xu Du

A chiral quantum Hall (QH) edge state placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor experiences induced superconducting correlations. Recent experiments have observed the effect of proximity-coupling in QH edge states through signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andreas B. Michelsen , Patrik Recher , Bernd Braunecker , Thomas L. Schmidt
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