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We consider the problem of the superconductor-insulator transition in the presence of disorder, assuming that the fermionic degrees of freedom can be ignored so that the problem reduces to one of Cooper pair localization. Weak disorder…

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In this letter, we examine the effect of Coulomb interactions in the normal region of a normal-superconducting (N/S) mesoscopic structure, here the change from an attractive to a repulsive coulombic interaction, at the N/S interface, causes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dolby , R. Seviour , C. J. Lambert

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Electron transport in nano-scale structures is strongly influenced by the Coulomb interaction which gives rise to correlations in the stream of charges and leaves clear fingerprints in the fluctuations of the electrical current. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Niels Ubbelohde , Christian Fricke , Christian Flindt , Frank Hohls , Rolf J. Haug

We discuss the nonlinear Andreev current of an interacting quantum dot coupled to spin-polarized and superconducting reservoirs when voltage and temperature biases are applied across the nanostructure. Due to the particle-hole symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Sun-Yong Hwang , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

When a quantum dot is attached to a metallic reservoir and a superconducting contact Andreev processes leads to a finite subgap current at the normal lead and the creation or destruction of Cooper pairs. Andreev-reflection engines profit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Gonzalo Manzano , Rosa López

We investigate the effect of interactions on Andreev current at a normal-superconducting junction when the normal phase is a Luttinger liquid with repulsive interactions. In particular, we study the system of a finite sized carbon nanotube…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Smitha Vishveshwara , Cristina Bena , Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Using the modified perturbation theory, we theoretically study the nonequilibrium Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads (N-QD-S), which is strongly influenced by the Kondo and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Quantum Hall-superconductor heterostructures provide possible platforms for intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computing. Motivated by several recent experiments that successfully integrated these phases, we investigate transport through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yuchen Tang , Christina Knapp , Jason Alicea

We present an analytical result for the supercurrent across a superconductor/quantum-dot/superconductor junction. By converting the current integration into a special contour integral, we can express the current as a sum of the residues of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Wei Li , Yu Zhu , Tsung-han Lin

Inspired by the microscopic control over dissipative processes in quantum optics and cold atoms, we develop an open-system framework to study dissipative control of transport in strongly interacting fermionic systems, relevant for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 François Damanet , Eduardo Mascarenhas , David Pekker , Andrew J. Daley

We investigate the nonequilibrium phenomena through the quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads using a weak-coupling continuous-time Monte Carlo method. Calculating the time evolution of particle number, double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-21 Akihisa Koga

We present a scattering description of transport in several normal-superconductor structures. We show that the related requirements of self-consistency and current conservation introduce qualitative changes in the transport behavior when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , F. Sols

Andreev bound states are an expression of quantum coherence between particles and holes in hybrid structures composed of superconducting and non-superconducting metallic parts. Their spectrum carries important information on the nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-28 Matthias Eschrig

We investigate the current cross-correlations in a double quantum dot based Cooper pair splitter coupled to one superconducting and two ferromagnetic electrodes. The analysis is performed by assuming a weak coupling between the double dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Kacper Wrześniewski , Piotr Trocha , Ireneusz Weymann

We study low-energy transport through a quantum dot coupled to one normal and two superconducting (SC) leads in a junction of Y-shape. In this geometry a crossover between Kondo dominated and Cooper-pairing dominated states occurs by tuning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akira Oguri , Yoichi Tanaka , Johannes Bauer

We derive bounds to the thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the linear-response regime for steady-state transport in two-terminal systems when time reversal symmetry is broken. We find that such bounds are different for charge and heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

We study the interplay between Coulomb blockade and superconductivity in a tunable superconductor-superconductor-normal metal single-electron transistor. The device is realized by connecting the superconducting island via an oxide barrier…

An interplay between charge discreteness, coherent scattering and Coulomb interaction yields nontrivial effects in quantum transport. We derive a real time effective action and an equivalent quantum Langevin equation for an arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitrii S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin