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The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

The nonlinear electron and heat currents of quantum dot molecules (QDMs) under a temperature bias are theoretically investigated, including all correlation functions arising from electron Coulomb interactions in QDMs. Unlike the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Chih-Chieh Chen , David M T Kuo , Yia-Chung Chang

Typically, topological superconductivity is reachable via proximity effect by a direct deposition of superconductor (S) on top of a topological insulator (TI) surface. Here we observed and analyzed the double critical current in the…

A first-principles approach is presented for the thermoelectricity in molecular junctions formed by a single molecule contact. The study investigates the Seebeck coefficient considering the source-drain electrodes with distinct temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 Yu-Shen Liu , Yu-Chang Chen

This letter reports thermopower and conductivity measurements through the metal-insulator transition for 2-dimensional electron gases in high mobility Si-MOSFET's. At low temperatures both thermopower and conductivity show critical behavior…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Fletcher , V. M. Pudalov , A. D. B. Radcliffe , C. Possanzini

We report here metal to insulator transition, colossal Seebeck coefficient and ultralow thermal conductivity (0.0057th of its bulk value, significantly smaller than many well-known thermoelectric materials and silicon, showing potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-28 Vikash Sharma , Gunadhor Singh Okram , Yung-Kang Kuo

In two-dimensional multivalley semiconductors, at low doping, even a moderate electron-electron interaction enhances the response to any perturbation inducing a valley polarization. If the valley polarization is due to the electron-phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-05 Matteo Calandra , Paolo Zoccante , Francesco Mauri

We show that the unexpected metallic behavior (the so-called two-dimensional metal-insulator transition) observed in low-density Silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (Si-MOSFETs) is controlled by a unique…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Geneviève Fleury , Xavier Waintal

The low-temperature conductance (G) characteristics between a normal metal and a clean superconductor (S) carrying a supercurrent $I_s$ parallel to the interface is theoretically investigated. Increasing $I_s$ causes lowering and broadening…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting , C. -R. Hu

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

Using the nonequilibrium theory of superconductivity with the tunnel Hamiltonian, we consider a mesoscopic NISINISIN heterostructure, i.e., a structure consisting of five intermittent normal-metal (N) and superconducting (S) regions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Voutilainen , T. T. Heikkila , N. B. Kopnin

We study thermal conductance and thermopower of a metallic single-electron transistor beyond the limit of weak tunnel coupling. Employing both a systematic second-order perturbation expansion and a non-perturbative approximation scheme, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Björn Kubala , Jürgen König

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…

We measure gate-tuned thermoelectric power of mechanically exfoliated Bi2Se3 thin films in the topological insulator regime. The sign of the thermoelectric power changes across the charge neutrality point as the majority carrier type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Dohun Kim , Paul Syers , Nicholas P. Butch , Johnpierre Paglione , Michael S. Fuhrer

The steady-state current-voltage response of ion-selective systems varies as the number of ion-selective components is varied. For the highly investigated unipolar system, including only one ion-selective component, it has been shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Ramadan Abu-Rjal , Yoav Green

Millivolt range thermovoltage is demonstrated in single InAs-nanowire based field effect transistors. Thanks to a buried heating scheme, we drive both a large thermal bias DT>10K and a strong field-effect modulation of electric conductance…

We have performed the first experiments in a superconductor - normal metal - superconductor single electron transistor in which there is an extra superconducting strip partially overlapping the normal metal island in good metal-to-metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Manninen , R. S. Poikolainen , T. V. Ryynanen , J. P. Pekola

A translation-invariant (TI) bipolaron theory of superconductivity based, like Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, on Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian is presented. Here the role of Cooper pairs belongs to TI bipolarons which are pairs of spatially…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-26 Victor D. Lakhno

Whereas thermoelectric performance is normally limited by the figure of merit ZT, transverse thermoelectrics can achieve arbitrarily large temperature differences in a single leg even with inferior ZT by being geometrically tapered. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Chuanle Zhou , S. Birner , Yang Tang , K. Heinselman , M. Grayson

A single static magnetic impurity in a fully-gapped superconductor leads to formation of an intragap quasiparticle bound state. At temperatures much below the superconducting transition, the energy relaxation and spin dephasing of the state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-01 Ivar Martin , Dmitry Mozyrsky