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We study the current noise spectra of a tunnel junction of a metal with strong pairing phase fluctuation and a superconductor. It is shown that there is a characteristic peak in the noise spectrum at the intrinsic Josephson frequency…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Xi Dai , Tao Xiang , Tai-Kai Ng , Zhao-bin Su

We study the current statistics in normal diffusive conductors in contact with a superconductor. Using an extension of the Keldysh Green's function method we are able to find the full distribution of charge transfers for all temperatures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We develop a unified theory of weakly probed differential observables for currents and noise in transport experiments. Our findings uncover a set of universal transport relations between thermoelectric and noise properties of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Andrei I. Pavlov , Mikhail N. Kiselev

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We investigate the transport properties through a finite dimer chain connected to two normal leads or one normal and one superconductor (SC) leads. The dimer chain is described by the Su-Schrieffer-Hegger model and can be tuned into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

Andreev reflection, which corresponds to the tunneling of two electrons from a metallic lead to a superconductor lead as a Cooper pair (or vice versa), can be exploited to measure high frequency noise. A detector is proposed, which consists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. K. T. Nguyen , T. Jonckheere , A. Crépieux , A. V. Nguyen , T. Martin

We present current noise measurements in a long diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junction in the low voltage regime, in which transport can be partially described in terms of coherent multiple Andreev reflections. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elsa Lhotel , Olivier Coupiac , François Lefloch , Hervé Courtois , Marc Sanquer

As the Fano effect is an interference phenomenon where tunneling paths compete for the electronic transport, it becomes a probe to catch fingerprints of Majorana fermions lying on condensed matter systems. In this work we benefit of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 F. A. Dessotti , L. S. Ricco , M. de Souza , F. M. Souza , A. C. Seridonio

The current fluctuation in normal metal / d-wave superconductor junctions are studied for various orientation of the crystal by taking account of the spatial variation of the pair potentials. Not only the zero-energy Andreev bound states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Tanaka , T. Asai , N. Yoshida , J. Inoue , S. Kashiwaya

Shot noise encodes additional information not directly inferable from simple electronic transport measurements. Previous measurements in atomic-scale metal junctions at cryogenic temperatures have shown suppression of the shot noise at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 P. J. Wheeler , J. N. Russom , K. Evans , N. S. King , D. Natelson

We study the full-counting statistics of charges transmitted through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to a local Einstein phonon which causes fluctuations in the dot energy. An analytic expression for the cumulant generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Ueda , A. Aharony

It is well established that the subgap conductivity through a normal-metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction is strongly affected by interference of electron waves scattered by impurities. In this paper we investigate how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Pistolesi , G. Bignon , F. W. J. Hekking

Tunneling conductance spectroscopy in normal metal-superconductor junctions is an important tool for probing Andreev bound states in mesoscopic superconducting devices, such as Majorana nanowires. In an ideal superconducting device, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 André Melo , Chun-Xiao Liu , Piotr Rożek , Tómas Örn Rosdahl , Michael Wimmer

We present a theory for the full distribution of current fluctuations in incoherent diffusive superconducting junctions, subjected to a voltage bias. This theory of full counting statistics of incoherent multiple Andreev reflections is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Samuelsson

We present the transport properties of a strongly correlated quantum dot attached to two leads with a side coupled non-interacting quantum dot. Transport properties are analyzed using the slave boson mean field theory which is reliable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. H. Wu , J. C. Cao , Kang-Hun Ahn

We study nonequilibrium transport through a charge Kondo device realizing the two-channel Kondo critical point in a recent experiment by Iftikhar et al. By computing the current and shot noise at low voltages near the critical point, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 L. A. Landau , E. Cornfeld , E. Sela

We have investigated the transport and noise properties of submicron YBCO bicrystal grain-boundary junctions prepared using electron beam lithography. The junctions show an increased conductance for low voltages reminiscent of Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Herbstritt , T. Kemen , L. Alff , A. Marx , R. Gross

The study of charge current fluctuations (noise) can give useful insights into the properties of nanoscale systems. In this work, the peculiar properties of noise in multiterminal hybrid normal-superconducting systems are explored in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Leonardo Pierattelli , Fabio Taddei , Alessandro Braggio

Unconventional superconductivity remains one of the central unsolved problems in quantum materials, and revealing its connection to the normal state is widely believed to be key to uncovering the pairing mechanism. Previous efforts have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuchen Wu , Yiwen Liu , Wanyue Lin , Zohar Nussinov , Sheng Ran

We propose and analyze continuous measurements of atom number and atomic currents using dispersive probing in an optical cavity. For an atom-number measurement in a closed system, we relate both the detection noise and the heating rate due…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-18 Shun Uchino , Masahito Ueda , Jean-Philippe Brantut