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We study coherent transport and bound-state formation of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in a high-mobility In$_{0.75}%$Ga$_{0.25}$As two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) coupled to a superconducting Nb electrode by means of a quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Hiroshi Irie , Clemens Todt , Norio Kumada , Yuichi Harada , Hiroki Sugiyama , Tatsushi Akazaki , Koji Muraki

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

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

We investigate electron transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and the edge of a two-dimensional semimetal, realized in a 20~nm wide HgTe quantum well. Experimentally, we observe that typical behavior of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 A. Kononov , S. V. Egorov , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , E. V. Deviatov

Quantum Hall/superconductor junctions have been an attractive topic as the two macroscopically quantum states join at the interface. Despite longstanding efforts, however, experimental understanding of this system has not been settled yet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Yusuke Kozuka , Atsushi Sakaguchi , Joseph Falson , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Masashi Kawasaki

In this work we uncover an interesting quantum plateau behavior for the Andreev reflection between a one-dimensional quantum wire and superconductor. The quantum plateau is achieved by properly tuning the interplay of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

The problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal and a multiband superconductor is addressed. The appropriate matching conditions for the wave function at the interface are established on the basis of an extension of quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-29 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

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

Recently we have proposed an unusual mechanism of superconducting current that is specific for Quantum Hall Edge channels connected to superconducting electrodes. We have shown that the supercurrent can be mediated by a nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Xiao-Li Huang , Yuli V. Nazarov

The $\nu = 2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state is the hole-conjugate state to the primary Laughlin $\nu = 1/3$ state. We investigate transmission of edge states through quantum point contacts fabricated on a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

Inducing Cooper pairing in a thin ferromagnetic topological insulator in the quantum anomalous Hall state (called quantum anomalous Hall insulator, QAHI) is a promising way to realize topological superconductivity with associated chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Anjana Uday , Gertjan Lippertz , Kristof Moors , Henry F. Legg , Andrea Bliesener , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando

We report experimental results on a quantum point contact (QPC) device formed in a wide AlAs quantum well where the two-dimensional electrons occupy two in-plane valleys with elliptical Fermi contours. To probe the closely-spaced,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Gunawan , B. Habib , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan

Understanding topological matter in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect requires identifying the nature of edge state quasiparticles. FQH edge state at the filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in the spin-polarized and non-polarized phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Vadim Ponomarenko , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

We demonstrate the transfer of the superconducting properties of NbTi---a large-gap high-critical-field superconductor---into an InAs heterostructure via a thin intermediate layer of epitaxial Al. Two device geometries, a Josephson junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 A. C. C. Drachmann , H. J. Suominen , M. Kjaergaard , B. Shojaei , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus , F. Nichele

We experimentally investigate Andreev transport through the interface between an indium superconductor and the edge of the InAs/GaSb bilayer. To cover all possible regimes of InAs/GaSb spectrum, we study samples with 10 nm, 12 nm, and 14 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 A. Kononov , V. A. Kostarev , B. R. Semyagin , V. V. Preobrazhenskii , M. A. Putyato , E. A. Emelyanov , E. V. Deviatov

We have investigated Andreev reflection at interfaces between superconducting indium (T_c = 3.4 K) and several normal conducting non-magnetic metals (palladium, platinum, and silver) down to T = 0.1 K as well as zinc (T_c = 0.87 K) in its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kurt Gloos , Elina Tuuli

The quasi-quantized Hall effect (QQHE) is the three-dimensional (3D) counterpart of the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE),exhibited only by two-dimensional (2D) electron systems. It has recently been observed in layered materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Rafał Wawrzyńczak , Stanislaw Galeski , Jonathan Noky , Yan Sun , Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

We measure the conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC) while the biased tip of a scanning probe microscope induces a depleted region in the electron gas underneath. At finite magnetic field we find plateaus in the real-space maps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Nikola Pascher , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider

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

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann