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The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Thermodynamic and transport properties of mesoscopic conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor: An interplay between the large scale quantum coherent wave functions in the normal mesoscopic and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Altland , B. D. Simons , D. Taras-Semchuk

The old problem of supercurrent in a long ballistic SNS Josephson junction is interpreted using a simple picture of the fermion energy levels in the normal and superconducting regions. We argue that a recent paper on the topic by Sonin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-06 Erkki Thuneberg

We study nonequilibrium noise correlations in diffusive normal-superconducting structures in the presence of a supercurrent. We present a parametrization for the quasiclassical Green's function in the first order of the counting field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

The method of the quasiclassical Green's function is used to determine the equilibrium properties of one-dimensional (1D) interacting Fermi systems, in particular, the bulk and the local (near a hard wall) density of states. While this is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 U. Eckern , P. Schwab

Electron transport characteristics are investigated through some molecular chains attached to two non-superconducting electrodes by the use of Green's function method. Here we do parametric calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-31 Santanu K. Maiti

We study a diffusive superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) junction in an external magnetic field. In the limit of a long junction, we find that the form of the dependence of the Josephson current on the field and on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-16 B. Crouzy , D. A. Ivanov

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

We consider a normal metal - superconductor (N-S) junction in the regime, when electrons in the normal metal are driven out of equilibrium. We show that the non-equilibrium fluctuations of the electron density in the N-layer cause the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

In theory of superconducting junctions, Green's function has an important role to obtain Andreev bound states, local density of states and Josephson current in a systematic way. In this article, we show how to construct Green's function on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-27 Bo Lu , Yukio Tanaka

We present a theoretical analysis of the current-voltage characteristics of a ballistic superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction, in which a strip of graphene is coupled to two superconducting electrodes. We focus in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , A. Levy Yeyati

Theory of non-stationary coherent effects is developed for superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) structures with relatively strong normal scattering on S/N interfaces (interface resistance is large compared to intrinsic resistance of N…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 K. S. Tikhonov , M. V. Feigel'man

Charge transport in a high-transmission single-mode long SINIS junction (S stands for superconductor, I is an insulator, and N is a normal metal) is considered in the limit of low bias voltages and low temperatures. The kinetic equation for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. B. Kopnin J. Voutilainen

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

We develop Green's function formalism to describe continuous multi-layered quasi-one-dimensional setups described by piece-wise constant single-particle Hamiltonians. The Hamiltonians of the individual layers are assumed to be quadratic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Kiryl Piasotski , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

Recent experiments on mesoscopic normal-metal--superconductor heterostructures resolve properties on length scales and at low temperatures such that the temperature is below the Thouless energy $k_B T \le E_{Th}$. We describe the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Belzig , Frank K. Wilhelm , Christoph Bruder , Gerd Schön , Andrei D. Zaikin

We consider a model NISIN system with two junctions in series, where N is a normal metal, S is a superconductor and I is an insulator. We assume that the resistance of the first junction is high, while the resistance of the second one is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-13 D. S. Golubev , A. S. Vasenko

We study the nonlinear transport properties of NS (normal-superconductor) and NSN structures by means of a self-consistent microscopic description. A nonzero superfluid velocity causes the various quasiparticle channels within S to open at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. Sánchez Cañizares , F. Sols