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We study transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads using the numerical renormalization group method. We show that the low-energy properties of the system are described by the local Fermi liquid theory…

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We investigate the spectral and transport properties of parallel double-quantum-dot (DQD) system with interdot tunneling coupling in both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium cases. The special geometry of DQD system is considered, in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rong Lu , Zhi-Rong Liu , Guang-Ming Zhang

We study the in-gap states of the quantum dot hybridized to a conducting and superconducting electrode. The usual proximity effect suppresses electronic states over the entire subgap regime $|\omega| < \Delta$, where $\Delta$ denotes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-14 J. Baranski , T. Domanski

The potential application of topological superconductivity in quantum transport and quantum information has fueled an intense investigation of hybrid materials with emergent electronic properties, including magnet-superconductor…

We analytically and numerically investigate an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with two superconducting terminals and a strongly correlated quantum dot in one arm. Through a rigorous derivation, we prove that this double-path interferometer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Peter Zalom , Don Rolih , Rok Žitko

We study the transport properties of a NSN structure with an insulating barrier at each NS interface. Coherent quasiparticle scattering is assumed and self-consistency is implemented exactly to guarantee local charge conservation. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , F. Sols

It has been recently shown that a nanostructure composed of a quantum dot surrounded by a quantum ring possesses a set of very unique characteristics that make it a good candidate for future nanoelectronic devices. Its main advantage is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Iwona Janus-Zygmunt , Barbara Kedzierska , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Elzbieta Zipper , Maciej M. Maska

We study resonant Andreev tunneling through a strongly interacting quantum dot connected to a normal and to a superconducting lead. We obtain a formula for the Andreev current and apply it to discuss the linear and non-linear transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosario Fazio , Roberto Raimondi

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of a closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing two quantum dots in the strong coupling regime. We find two distinct physical scenarios depending on the strength of the interdot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez , Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi , Pascal Simon , Karyn Le Hur

Topological materials and their unusual transport properties are now at the focus of modern experimental and theoretical research. Their topological properties arise from the bandstructure determined by the atomic composition of a material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

We investigate low-temperature transport characteristics of a side-coupled double quantum dot where only one of the dots is directly connected to the leads. We observe Fano resonances, which arise from interference between discrete levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Sasaki , H. Tamura , T. Akazaki , T. Fujisawa

We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Jan F. Rentrop , Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , B. Trauzettel

We study superconducting quantum interference in a Josephson junction linked via edge states in two-dimensional (2D) insulators. We consider two scenarios in which the 2D insulator is either a topological or a trivial insulator supporting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Tamás Haidekker Galambos , Silas Hoffman , Patrik Recher , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We study the behavior of a topological Josephson junction in which two topological superconductors are coupled through a quantum dot. We focus on the case with the bulk superconducting gap being the largest energy scale. Two parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-11 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

We study the quantum transport in double quantum dots (DQD) sandwiched between surfaces of topological insulator (TI) Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$, which possess strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and $^{d}$C$_{3v}$ double group symmetry. Different from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Yuan Hong , Zhen-Guo Fu , Zhou-Wei-Yu Chen , Feng Chi , Zhigang Wang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

We study the nonlinear cotunneling current through a spinful quantum dot contacted by two superconducting leads. Applying a general nonequilibrium Green function formalism to an effective Kondo model, we study the rich variation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 B. M. Andersen , K. Flensberg , V. Koerting , J. Paaske

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

In cuprate superconductors, tunneling between planes makes possible three-dimensional coherent transport. However, the interlayer tunnelling amplitude is reduced when an order-parameter phase gradient between planes is established. As such,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Dienst , M. C. Hoffmann , D. Fausti , J. Petersen , S. Pyon , T. Takayama , H. Takagi , A. Cavalleri

We investigate transport properties of a superconducting junction of many ($N \ge 2$) one-dimensional quantum wires. We include the effectofelectron-electron interaction within the one-dimensional quantum wire using a weak interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha