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We have studied the interplay of Andreev reflection and cyclotron motion of quasiparticles at a superconductor-normal-metal interface with a strong magnetic field applied parallel to the interface. Bound states are formed due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Hoppe , U. Zuelicke , Gerd Schoen

The Andreev reflection measurements of the superconducting energy gap in the carbon-substituted MgB$_2$ are presented. Despite the strong suppression of the transition temperature by 17 K in comparison with the pure MgB$_2$, the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Samuely , Z. Holanova , P. Szabo , J. Kacmarcik , R. A. Ribeiro , S. L. Bud'ko , P. C. Canfield

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

The bias-dependent resistance R(V) of NS-junctions is calculated using the Keldysh formalism in all orders of the transfer matrix element. We present a compact and simple formula for the Andreev current, that results from the coupling of…

supr-con · Physics 2009-10-30 F. B. Anders , K. Gloos

Andreev reflection at the interface between a half-metallic ferromagnet and a spin-singlet superconductor is possible only if it is accompanied by a spin flip. Here we calculate the Andreev reflection amplitudes for the case that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Joern N. Kupferschmidt , Piet W. Brouwer

Motivated by recent experiments on low-carrier-density superconductors, including twisted multilayer graphene, we study signatures of the BCS to BEC evolution in Andreev reflection spectroscopy. We establish that in a standard quantum point…

We propose a new process of magnon-assisted Andreev reflection at a ferromagnetic metal - superconductor interface, which consists of the simultaneous injection of a Cooper pair from the superconductor and the emission of a magnon inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Grygoriy Tkachov , Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We investigate the properties of complex mesoscopic superconducting-normal hybrid devices, Andreev-Interferometers in the case, where the current is proped through a superconducting tunneling contact whereas the proximity effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. K. Wilhelm , A. A. Golubov

We study Andreev reflection in a normal conductor-molecule-superconductor junction using a first principles approach. In particular, we focus on a family of molecules consisting of a molecular backbone and a weakly coupled side group. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Kormanyos , I. Grace , C. J. Lambert

In this letter we address the question of the phenomena of Andreev reflection between the cold quark-gluon plasma phase and CFL color superconductor. We show that there are two different types of reflections connected to the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sadzikowski , M. Tachibana

We review here a novel circuit theory of superconductivity. The existed circuit theory of Andreev reflection has been revised to account for decoherence between electrons and holes and twofold nature of the distribution function. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuli V. Nazarov

It is shown that the two-gap approximation is applicable for describing the $dV/dI(V)$ spectra of LuNi$_{2}$B$_{2}$C-Ag point contacts in a wide interval of temperatures. The values and the temperature dependences of the large and the small…

We report on the Andreev spectroscopy and specific heat of high-quality single crystals BaFe$_{1.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$As$_{2}$. The intrinsic multiple Andreev reflection spectroscopy reveals two anisotropic superconducting gaps $\Delta_L \approx…

Layered oxypnictide Sm$_{1-x}$Th$_x$OFeAs (Sm-1111) is an ideal candidate to be probed by intrinsic multiple Andreev reflections effect (IMARE) spectroscopy. Using the classical "break-junction" technique, we formed ballistic Andreev arrays…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-01 T. E. Kuzmicheva , S. A. Kuzmichev , S. N. Tchesnokov , N. D. Zhigadlo

A junction with two superconductors coupled by a normal metal hosts Andreev bound states whose energy spectrum is phase-dependent and exhibits a minigap, resulting in a periodic supercurrent. Phase-dependent dissipation also appears at…

We study tunneling spectroscopy of discrete subgap Andreev states in a superconducting system. If the tunneling coupling is weak, individual levels are resolved and the conductance $G(V)$ at small temperatures is composed of a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 P. A. Ioselevich , M. V. Feigel'man

Using the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study the Andreev reflection in a Y-shaped graphene-superconductor device by tight-binding model. Considering both the zigzag and armchair terminals, we confirm that the zigzag terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Chao Wang , Youlian Zou , Juntao Song , Yu-Xian Li

The quantization of the current in a superconducting quantum point contact is reviewed and the critical current is discussed at different temperatures depending on the carrier concentration as well by suggesting a constant potential in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 Arafa H Aly , Jamila Douari

It is shown that the low energy spectrum of mesoscopic superconductors coupled by Josephson interaction can be probed by two-electron tunneling from a normal electrode. The Andreev reflection in the NS junction of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , L. I. Glazman , Gerd Schoen

We review recent progress in point contact spectroscopy (PCS) to extract spectroscopic information out of correlated electron materials, with the emphasis on non-superconducting states. PCS has been used to detect bosonic excitations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-18 Wei-Cheng Lee , Laura H. Greene