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The accurate and proper form of electron-hole excitations and corresponding Dirac-like spinors of monolayer molybdenum disulfide superconductor are exactly obtained. Andreev reflection and resulting subgap conductance in a $MoS_2$-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou , S. F. Ebadzadeh

We investigated the transport properties in a normal metal/ferromagnet/normal metal/superconductor junction based on semi-Dirac materials with inverted energy gap. With a scattering matrix approach, we show that the electron transport in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-03 Yupeng Huang , R. Shen

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 report on electronic transport properties of mesoscopic superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structures. Two ferromagnetic iron leads form planar tunnel contacts to a superconducting aluminum wire, where the distance of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

A theory of spin polarized tunneling spectroscopy based on a scattering theory is given for tunneling junctions between ferromagnets and d-wave superconductors. The spin filtering effect of an exchange field in the insulator is also…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kashiwaya , Y. Tanaka , N. Yoshida , M. R. Beasley

Here we review the literature concerning measurement of the Andreev reflection between a superconductor (S) and ferromagnet (F), with particular attention to the case where the ferromagnet is a transition metal oxide. We discuss the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Karen A Yates , Lesley F Cohen

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

Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-23 Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

We investigate the applicability of spin polarization measurements using Andreev reflection in a point contact geometry in heavily doped dilute magnetic semiconductors, such as (Ga,Mn)As. While we observe conventional Andreev reflection in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 R. P. Panguluri , K. C. Ku , T. Wojtowicz , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller , N. Samarth , B. Nadgorny

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

Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ has recently emerged as a ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metal. Theoretical investigation of the spin-split bands predicted half metalicity in the compound. Here, we report the detection of a spin polarized supercurrent through a…

We calculate the conductance of a junction between a disordered superconductor and a very strong half-metallic ferromagnet admitting electrons with only one spin projection. A usual mechanism of Andreev reflection is strongly suppressed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 M. E. Ismagambetov , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigel'man

We theoretically reveal the possibility of specular Andreev reflection in a thin film topological insulator normal-superconductor (N/S) junction in the presence of a gate electric field. The probability of specular Andreev reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The Andreev reflection of the normal state-superconductor junction both in monolayer and bilayer graphene with a single magnetic barrier is investigated by means of the Green's function formalism. Within the tight-binding model, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Hengyi Xu , T. Henizel

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 study electron transport across a single planar junction between the indium electrode and MnTe altermagnet candidate. We confirm standard Ohmic behavior with strictly linear current-voltage curves above the indium critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We study theoretically the differential conductance at a junction between a time reversal symmetry broken spin orbit coupled system with a tunable band gap and a superconductor. We look for spin-dependent Andreev reflection (i.e, sub-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Joanna Hutchinson , Arijit Kundu

We realized point contact spectroscopy experiment on ferromagnet/superconductor bilayers. Differential conductance curves show several features that we explained within Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism considering the presence of two…

We show how an electrical measurement can detect the pairing of electrons on the same side of the Fermi surface (Amperian pairing), recently proposed by Patrick Lee for the pseudogap phase of high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors. Bragg…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-02 P. Baireuther , T. Hyart , B. Tarasinski , C. W. J. Beenakker