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We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We consider a process of the Andreev reflection between a normal metal and the s-wave superconductor in the FFLO state. It is shown that the process takes place if the energy of the incoming electron is bound within the finite interval…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomasz L. Partyka , Mariusz Sadzikowski , Motoi Tachibana

We have studied the interplay of Andreev reflection and cyclotron motion of quasiparticles at a superconductor-normal-metal interface with a strong magnetic field applied parallel to the interface. Bound states are formed due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Hoppe , U. Zuelicke , Gerd Schoen

We study superconducting quantum interference in InSb flake Josephson junctions. An even-odd effect in the amplitude and periodicity of the superconducting quantum interference pattern is found. Interestingly, the occurrence of this pattern…

Here we review the literature concerning measurement of the Andreev reflection between a superconductor (S) and ferromagnet (F), with particular attention to the case where the ferromagnet is a transition metal oxide. We discuss the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Karen A Yates , Lesley F Cohen

In the "ballistic" regime, the transport across a normal metal (N)/superconductor (S) point-contact is dominated by a quantum process called Andreev reflection. Andreev reflection causes an enhancement of the conductance below the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 Ritesh Kumar , Goutam Sheet

We study the transport properties of nanoscale superconducting (S) devices in which two superconducting electrodes are bridged by two parallel ferromagnetic (F) wires, forming an SFFS junction with a separation between the two wires less…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-05 Madalina Colci , Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara , Dale J. Van Harlingen

We have fabricated a superconductor/semiconductor (S/Sm) junction composed of Al and InAs using cleaved edge overgrowth. By exploiting the unique geometry with a thin Al/Pt/Al trilayer formed on the side surface of an in-situ cleaved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Takafumi Akiho , Hiroshi Irie , Yusuke Nakazawa , Satoshi Sasaki , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki

A recently developed theory for the problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal (N) and a multiband superconductor (MBS) assumes that the incident wave from the normal metal is coherently transmitted through several bands inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

Epitaxially grown, high quality semiconductor InSb nanowires are emerging material systems for the development of high performance nanoelectronics and quantum information processing and communication devices, and for the studies of new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 H. A. Nilsson , P. Samuelsson , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

Andreev reflection (AR) in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions is an indispensable spectroscopic tool for measuring spin polarization. We study theoretically how the presence of a thin semiconducting interface in such junctions, inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 Andreas Costa , Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

Andreev scattering and the Josephson current through a one-dimensional interacting electron liquid sandwiched between two superconductors are re-examined. We first present some apparently new results on the non-interacting case by studying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Ian Affleck , Jean-Sebastien Caux , Alexandre Zagoskin

Andreev reflection spectroscopy of ferromagnet/superconductor (FS) junctions is an important probe of spin polarization. We theoretically investigate spin-polarized transport in FS junctions in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-24 Petra Högl , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate the properties of subharmonic gap structure (SGS) in superconducting quantum contacts with normal-electron resonances. We find two distinct new features of the SGS in resonant junctions which distinguish them from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Johansson , E. N. Bratus , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

In view of the recent progress in experiments on charge transport through various Josephson junctions made out of graphene, we have made a careful comparison between the theory and some of the available experimental results. Within the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-12 Shahrukh Salim , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

We theoretically propose the laser-induced Andreev reflection between two-component Fermi superfluid and normal states via spatially-uniform Rabi couplings. By analyzing the tunneling current between the superfluid and normal states up to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-01 Tingyu Zhang , Hiroyuki Tajima , Yuta Sekino , Shun Uchino , Haozhao Liang

Using an approach based on quasiclassical Green's functions we present a theoretical study of transport in mesoscopic S/N structures in the diffusive limit. The subgap conductance in S/N structures with barriers (zero bias and finite bias…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. F. Volkov , V. V. Pavlovskii , R. Seviour

We study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in quantum SNS junctions of finite length and arbitrary transparency. The presence of superconducting bound states in these junctions gives rise to great enhancement of the subgap current. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Å. Ingerman , G. Johansson , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We present a theory of Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double junction system. The spin polarized quasiparticles penetrate to the superconductor in the range of penetration depth from the interface by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Taro Yamashita , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

We present a theory of the current-voltage characteristics in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions. By solving the time-dependent Usadel equations we are able to describe the phase-coherent transport for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , J. Hammer , J. Kopu , J. K. Viljas , M. Eschrig