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Josephson junctions are typically characterized by a single phase difference across two superconductors. This conventional two-terminal Josephson junction can be generalized to a multi-terminal device where the Josephson energy contains…

A superconductor is a natural source of spin-entangled spatially separated electron pairs. Although the first Cooper-pair splitter devices have been realized recently, an experimental confirmation of the spin state and the entanglement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Zoltán Scherübl , András Pályi , Szabolcs Csonka

Recent improvements in materials growth and fabrication techniques may finally allow for superconducting semiconductors to realize their potential. Here we build on a recent proposal to construct superconducting devices such as wires,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Yun-Pil Shim , Charles Tahan

In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins are paired up to form Cooper pairs. This includes both conventional $s$-wave superconductors such as aluminum as well as high-$T_\text{c}$, $d$-wave superconductors.…

It is generally believed that in a superconducor Cooper pairs are broken at above-critical current region, corresponding to the lost of superconductivity. We suggest that, under some circumstance, Cooper pairs could still exist above…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-03-07 Yongle Yu

The pairing structure of superconducting materials is regulated by the point group symmetries of the crystal. Here, we study spin-singlet multiorbital superconductivity in materials with unusually low crystalline symmetry content and unveil…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Carmine Ortix , Mario Cuoco

In all known fermionic superfluids, Cooper pairs are composed of spin-1/2 quasi-particles that pair to form either spin-singlet or spin-triplet bound states. The "spin" of a Bloch electron, however, is fixed by the symmetries of the crystal…

Distinct from familiar $s$-, $p$-, or $d$-wave pairings, the monopole superconducting order represents a novel class of pairing order arising from nontrivial monopole charge of the Cooper pair. In the weak-coupling regime, this order can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 Grayson R. Frazier , Junjia Zhang , Junyi Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Yi Li

Cooper pair splitting (CPS) is a process in which the electrons of naturally occurring spin-singlet pairs in a superconductor are spatially separated using two quantum dots. Here we investigate the evolution of the conductance correlations…

We investigate transport properties of a double quantum dot based Cooper pair splitter, where the superconducting lead consists of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. The proposed device can be used to explore the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-08 Rakesh P. Tiwari , W. Belzig , Manfred Sigrist , C. Bruder

Superconducting circuits for quantum information processing are often described theoretically in terms of a discrete charge, or equivalently, a compact phase/flux, at each node in the circuit. Here we revisit the consequences of lifting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Dat Thanh Le , Jared H. Cole , T. M. Stace

We show how to induce pairing of Cooper pairs (and, thus, $4e$ superconductivity) as a result of local embedding of a quantum impurity in a Josephson network fabricable with conventional junctions. We find that a boundary double Sine-Gordon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Giuliano , P. Sodano

We consider the sub-gap physics of a hybrid double-quantum dot Cooper-pair splitter with large single-level spacings, in the presence of tunnelling between the dots and finite Coulomb intra- and inter-dot Coulomb repulsion. In the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Robert Hussein , Lina Jaurigue , Michele Governale , Alessandro Braggio

Electron waiting times are an important concept in the analysis of quantum transport in nano-scale conductors. Here we show that the statistics of electron waiting times can be used to characterize Cooper pair splitters that create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Nicklas Walldorf , Ciprian Padurariu , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christian Flindt

We propose an approach allowing the computation of currents and their correlations in interacting multiterminal mesoscopic systems involving quantum dots coupled to normal and/or superconducting leads. The formalism relies on the expression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 J. Rech , D. Chevallier , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We consider a combined nanomechanical-supercondcuting device that allows the Cooper pair tunneling to interfere with the mechanical motion of the middle superconducting island. Coupling of mechanical oscillations of a superconducting island…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 J. Fransson , J. -X. Zhu , A. V. Balatsky

Unconventional superconductivity arising from the interplay between strong spin-orbit coupling and magnetism is an intensive area of research. One form of unconventional superconductivity arises when Cooper pairs subjected to a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Angela Q. Chen , Moon Jip Park , Stephen T. Gill , Yiran Xiao , Gregory J. MacDougall , Matthew J. Gilbert , Nadya Mason

Extensive efforts have been undertaken to combine superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect so that Cooper-pair transport between superconducting electrodes in Josephson junctions is mediated by one-dimensional edge states. This…

Bilayer graphene hosts valley-chiral one dimensional modes at domain walls between regions of different interlayer potential or stacking order. When such a channel is brought into proximity to a superconductor, the two electrons of a Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Alexander Schroer , Peter G. Silvestrov , Patrik Recher

Three-terminal superconductor (S) - normal metal (N) - superconductor (S) Josephson junctions are investigated. In a geometry where a T-shape normal metal is connected to three superconducting reservoirs, new sub-gap structures appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Andreas H. Pfeffer , Jean Eudes Duvauchelle , Hervé Courtois , Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg , François Lefloch