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We study Andreev conversion in clean nanostructures containing an interface between graphene in the quantum Hall (QH) state and a superconductor, focusing on the lowest Landau level. First, several graphene nanostructures formed from zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Alexey Bondarev , William H. Klein , Harold U. Baranger

Hybrid superconductor/graphene (SC/g) junctions are excellent candidates for investigating correlations between Cooper pairs and quantum Hall (QH) edge modes. Experimental studies are challenging as Andreev reflections are extremely…

We perform a systematic study of Andreev conversion at the interface between a superconductor and graphene in the quantum Hall (QH) regime. We find that the probability of Andreev conversion from electrons to holes follows an unexpected but…

Graphene's exceptional electronic mobility, gate-tunability, and contact transparency with superconducting materials make it ideal for exploring the superconducting proximity effect. However, the work function difference between graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Seong Jang , Geon-Hyoung Park , Sein Park , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

We have realized an integer quantum Hall system with superconducting contacts by connecting graphene to niobium electrodes. Below their upper critical field of 4 tesla, an integer quantum Hall effect coexists with superconductivity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Peter Rickhaus , Markus Weiss , Laurent Marot , Christian Schönenberger

Quantum Hall/superconductor junctions have been an attractive topic as the two macroscopically quantum states join at the interface. Despite longstanding efforts, however, experimental understanding of this system has not been settled yet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Yusuke Kozuka , Atsushi Sakaguchi , Joseph Falson , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Masashi Kawasaki

We investigate the superconducting proximity effect through graphene in the long diffusive junction limit, at low and high magnetic field. The interface quality and sample phase coherence lead to a zero resistance state at low temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Katsuyoshi Komatsu , Chuan Li , S. Autier-Laurent , H. Bouchiat , S. Gueron

We report the study of ballistic transport in normal metal/graphene/superconductor junctions in edge-contact geometry. While in the normal state, we have observed Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonances suggesting that charge carriers travel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 P. Pandey , R. Kraft , R. Krupke , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau

By combining the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics with the Bogoliubov-De Gennes equation of superconductivity we investigate the electron-hole conversion at a normal-metal--superconductor interface in graphene. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the reflection of electrons and quasiparticles on point-contact interfaces between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and normal metals (leads), as well as interfaces between two FQH states with mismatched filling fractions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures confining a high-mobility two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) have emerged as a compelling platform for hybrid superconductor(S)-semiconductor(Sm) quantum devices. Here, we investigate the low-temperature…

We study the crossed Andreev effects in two-dimensional conductor/superconductor hybrid systems under a perpendicular magnetic field. Both a graphene/superconductor hybrid system and an electron gas/superconductor one are considered. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Zhe Hou , Yanxia Xing , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Electrons incident from a normal metal onto a superconductor are reflected back as holes - a process called Andreev reflection. In a normal metal where the Fermi energy is much larger than a typical superconducting gap, the reflected hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 D. K. Efetov , L. Wang , C. Handschin , K. B. Efetov , J. Shuang , R. Cava , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , P. Kim

We report the investigation of electron transport through a four-terminal graphene-superconductor hybrid system. Due to the quantum interference of the reflected holes from two graphene-superconductor interfaces with phase difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

Inducing superconducting correlations in chiral edge states is predicted to generate topologically protected zero energy modes with exotic quantum statistics. Experimental efforts to date have focused on engineering interfaces between…

Coherent charge transport along ballistic paths can be introduced into graphene by Andreev reflection, for which an electron reflects from a superconducting contact as a hole, while a Cooper pair is transmitted. We use a liquid-helium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Bhandari , G. -H. Lee , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , R. M. Westervelt

We simulate a hybrid superconductor-graphene device in the quantum Hall regime to identify the origin of downstream resistance oscillations in a recent experiment [Zhao et. al. Nature Physics 16, (2020)]. In addition to the previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Antonio L. R. Manesco , Ian Matthias Flór , Chun-Xiao Liu , Anton R. Akhmerov

Recent experiments have shown that the edge states of a quantum Hall sample can be coupled to a superconductor, so that incoming electrons in the edge states can be Andreev converted by the superconductor as coherent superpositions of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Benjamin Roussel , Pablo Burset , Christian Flindt

Scattering processes in quantum materials emerge as resonances in electronic transport, including confined modes, Andreev states, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. However, in most instances, these resonances are driven by a single scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-26 Sharadh Jois , Jose L. Lado , Genda Gu , Qiang Li. , Ji Ung Lee

We report on Andreev reflections at clean NbSe2-bilayer graphene junctions. The high transparency of the junction, which manifests as a large conductance enhancement of up to 1.8, enables us to see clear evidence of a proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jing Li , Han-Bing Leng , Hailong Fu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xin Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Jun Zhu
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