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The electron transport though ferromagnetic metal-superconducting hybrid devices is considered in the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the quasiclassical approximation. Attention if focused on the limit in which the exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We experimentally investigate Andreev bound states (ABSs) in a carbon nanotube quantum dot (QD) connected to a superconducting Nb lead (S). A weakly coupled normal metal contact acts as a tunnel probe that measures the energy dispersion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Jens Schindele , Andreas Baumgartner , Romain Maurand , Markus Weiss , Christian Schönenberger

In this work, it is considered a nanostructure composed by a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnets and a superconductor. The transport properties of this system are studied within a generalized mean-field approximation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 E. C. Siqueira , P. A. Orellana , A. C. Seridonio , R. C. Cestari , M. S. Figueira , G. G. Cabrera

Semiconductor nanowires have opened new research avenues in quantum transport owing to their confined geometry and electrostatic tunability. They have offered an exceptional testbed for superconductivity, leading to the realization of…

We investigate a novel way to manipulate the spin polarized transmission in a two terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon in presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction with circular shaped cavity engraved into it. A usual technique to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

Semiconductors in the proximity of superconductors have been proposed to support phases hosting Majorana bound states. When the systems undergo a topological phase transition towards the Majorana phase, the spectral gap closes, then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Doru Sticlet , Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Balázs Dóra

Recently, exciting progress has been made in using the superconducting nanowires coupled to gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) to mimic the Kiteav chain and realize the Majorana-bound states via a poor man's route. The essential ingredient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Zhi-Hai Liu , Chuanchang Zeng , H. Q. Xu

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laurens W. Molenkamp , Georg Schmidt , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study the interband transport in a superconducting device composed of graphene with EuO-induced exchange interaction. We show that pure crossed Andreev reflection can be generated exclusively without the parasitic local Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Yee Sin Ang , L. K. Ang , C. Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

We report the results of a study of magnetic field features of electron transport in heterojunctions with NS boundary inside iron-based superconductors, represented by a binary phase of $\alpha$ - FeSe and oxyarsenide pnictide LaO(F)FeAs.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-16 M. O. Dzyuba , Yu. N. Chiang , D. A. Chareev , A. N. Vasiliev

Quantum anomalous Hall insulators are topologically characterized by non-zero integer Chern numbers, the sign of which depends on the direction of the exchange field that breaks time-reversal symmetry. This feature allows the manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Carlo M. Canali

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a nonlocal transport phenomenon in a system of two normal metal (NM) leads connected to a superconductor (SC) that converts the electron like excitations in one metallic lead into hole like excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Abhiram Soori

Recent theoretical work highlighted unique properties of superconducting altermagnets, including the wealth of topologically non-trivial phases as well as their potential uses in spintronic applications. Given that no intrinsically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Niclas Heinsdorf , Marcel Franz

The Rashba superconductor, in which spin-splitting bands become superconducting, is fascinating as a novel superconducting system in low dimensional systems. Here, we present the results of $\textit{in-situ}$ transport measurements on a…

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

The discovery of hidden spin polarization (HSP) in centrosymmetric nonmagnetic crystals, i.e., spatially distributed spin polarization originated from local symmetry breaking, has promised an expanded material pool for future spintronics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-04 Weizhao Chen , Mingqiang Gu , Jiayu Li , Panshuo Wang , Qihang Liu

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We study the transport properties of a hybrid nanostructure composed of a ferromagnet, two quantum dots, and a superconductor connected in series. By using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach, we have calculated the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. C. Siqueira , G. G. Cabrera

We have investigated the transport of spin polarization through a classically chaotic semiconductor loop with a strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We found that if the escape time of a particle is long enough, the configuration averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Mal'shukov , V. Shlyapin , K. A. Chao