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We report on transport measurements on Nb/Al/Gd/Al/Nb junctions.Bulk Gadolinium is a weakly polarized ferromagnet (5-7%), and is present in the junction in granular form (superparamagnet). We show that Andreev reflection is strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bourgeois , P. Gandit , J. Lesueur , R. Mélin , A. Sulpice , X. Grison , J. Chaussy

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We study Andreev reflection in a normal conductor-molecule-superconductor junction using a first principles approach. In particular, we focus on a family of molecules consisting of a molecular backbone and a weakly coupled side group. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Kormanyos , I. Grace , C. J. Lambert

The electron-hole conversion at the normal-metal superconductor interface in inversion-symmetric Weyl semimetals is investigated with an effective two-band model. We find that the specular Andreev reflection of Weyl fermions has two unusual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Wei Chen , Liang Jiang , R. Shen , L. Sheng , B. G. Wang , D. Y. Xing

Electrons can be reflected at an interface between two metals because of a dielectric barrier or different properties of the Fermi surface. Andreev reflection allows to directly measure normal reflection when one of the metals is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Elina Tuuli , Kurt Gloos

This is a colloquium-style introduction to two electronic processes in a carbon monolayer (graphene), each having an analogue in relativistic quantum mechanics. Both processes couple electron-like and hole-like states, through the action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. W. J. Beenakker

Andreev reflection is investigated in layered anisotropic normal metal / superconductor (N/S) systems in the case of an energy gap \Delta in S not negligible with respect to the Fermi energy E_F, as it probably occurs with high critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Golubov , F. Tafuri

In this article, we study the transport properties of Graphene-Superconductor-Graphene (GSG) heterojunction where the superconducting region is created in the middle of a graphene sheet, as contrasted to widely studied transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Shahrukh Salim , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

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

Andreev reflection at a superconductor and Klein tunneling through an n-p junction in graphene are two processes that couple electrons to holes -- the former through the superconducting pair potential Delta and the latter through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 C. W. J. Beenakker , A. R. Akhmerov , P. Recher , J. Tworzydlo

In the "ballistic" regime, the transport across a normal metal (N)/superconductor (S) point-contact is dominated by a quantum process called Andreev reflection. Andreev reflection causes an enhancement of the conductance below the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 Ritesh Kumar , Goutam Sheet

The energy-dependent Andreev reflection eigenvalues determine the transport properties of normal-superconducting systems. We evaluate the eigenvalue density to get an insight into formation of resonant electron-hole transport channels. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Samuelsson , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We propose a phenomenological description of electronic transport through a normal metal/superconductor interface of arbitrary transparency, which accounts for the presence of electron-electron interaction in the normal metal. The effect of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Man , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

We theoretically propose the laser-induced Andreev reflection between two-component Fermi superfluid and normal states via spatially-uniform Rabi couplings. By analyzing the tunneling current between the superfluid and normal states up to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-01 Tingyu Zhang , Hiroyuki Tajima , Yuta Sekino , Shun Uchino , Haozhao Liang

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 develop a quasiclassical theory of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes. Provided tunneling interface resistance between one superconducting electrode and the normal metal strongly exceeds two others, significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin , L. S Kuzmin

We investigate Andreev reflection at the interface between a superconductor and a two--dimensional electron system (2DES) in an external magnetic field such that cyclotron motion is important in the latter. A finite Zeeman splitting in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Giazotto , M. Governale , U. Zuelicke , F. Beltram

We analyze non-local effects in electron transport across three-terminal normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures. Subgap electrons entering S-electrode from one N-metal may form Cooper pairs with their counterparts penetrating from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-13 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate theoretically charge transport in hybrid multiterminal junctions with superconducting leads kept at different voltages. It is found that multiple Andreev reflections involving several superconducting leads give rise to rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 M. Houzet , P. Samuelsson

The tunneling spectrum of an electron and a hole in a superlattice of NS junctions is computed using the BTK approach and the transfer matrix method. It shows sharp resonances at some energies above the superconducting gap. The sharper the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-20 W. LiMing , Jiayun Luo , Xiaoxue Cai , Ke Sha , Liangbin Hu