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We demonstrate several new electron transport phenomena mediated by Andreev bound states (ABSs) that form on three-terminal carbon nanotube (CNT) QDs, with one superconducting (S) contact in the center and two adjacent normal metal (N)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 J. Gramich , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

As the surface Andreev bound state (ABS) forms at the open ($1,1$) edge of a $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor, the local density of states (LDOS) increases. Therefore, a strong electron correlation and drastic phenomena may occur. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Shun Matsubara , Hiroshi Kontani

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 present analytical and numerical results for the electronic spectra of wires of a d-wave superconductor on a square lattice. The spectra of Andreev and other quasiparticle states, as well as the spatial and particle-hole structures of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Bobkov , L. -Y. Zhu , S. -W. Tsai , T. S. Nunner , Yu. S. Barash , P. J. Hirschfeld

We study coherent transport and bound-state formation of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in a high-mobility In$_{0.75}%$Ga$_{0.25}$As two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) coupled to a superconducting Nb electrode by means of a quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Hiroshi Irie , Clemens Todt , Norio Kumada , Yuichi Harada , Hiroki Sugiyama , Tatsushi Akazaki , Koji Muraki

Surfaces of $d$-wave superconductors may host a substantial density of zero-energy Andreev states. The zero-energy flat band appears due to a topological constraint, but comes with a cost in free energy. We have recently found that an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 P. Holmvall , A. Vorontsov , M. Fogelstrom , T. Lofwander

We show that interface bound states are formed at isolated graphene-superconductor junctions. These states arise due to the interplay of virtual Andreev and normal reflections taking place at these interfaces. Simple analytical expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Burset , W. Herrera , A. Levy Yeyati

We investigate a hybrid device consisting of two quantum dots placed between a BCS superconductor and a semiconductor with a strong spin-orbit interaction. Assuming charge tunneling between quantum dots through spin-flip processes, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bogdan R. Bułka , Tadeusz Domański , Karol I. Wysokiński

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 superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and multiterminal Josephson junctions. As opposed to their…

Surface Andreev bound states, including Majorana bound states in topological superconductors, are typically charge neutral. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of unconventional charged Andreev bound states in a superconductor with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Satoshi Ando , Shingo Kobayashi , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

Electron correlation in a quantum many-body state appears as peculiar scattering behaviour at its boundary, symbolic of which is Andreev reflection at a metal-superconductor interface. Despite being fundamental in nature, dictated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Masayuki Hashisaka , Thibaut Jonckheere , Takafumi Akiho , Satoshi Sasaki , Jerome Rech , Thierry Martin , Koji Muraki

Andreev bound states can occur at single impurities in superconductors if the impurities suppress superconductivity for a given system. In particular, well-known Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states occur at magnetic impurities in conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-30 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

We present a self-consistent theory of current-voltage characteristics of d-wave/d-wave contacts at arbitrary transparency. In particular, we address the open problem of the observation of subharmonic gap structure (SGS) in cuprate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Poenicke , J. C. Cuevas , M. Fogelstrom

We propose that, if the pseudogap state in the cuprate superconductors can be described in terms of the phase-incoherent preformed pairs, there should exist Andreev reflection from these pairs even above the superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Han-Yong Choi , Yunkyu Bang , David K. Campbell

Andreev bound states are fermionic states localized in weak links between superconductors which can be occupied with spinful quasiparticles. Microwave experiments using superconducting circuits with InAs/Al nanowire Josephson junctions have…

A chiral quantum Hall (QH) edge state placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor experiences induced superconducting correlations. Recent experiments have observed the effect of proximity-coupling in QH edge states through signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andreas B. Michelsen , Patrik Recher , Bernd Braunecker , Thomas L. Schmidt

We study Andreev bound states in a long shallow normal constriction, which is open to a superconductor at both ends. The interesting features of such setup include the absence of electron-hole symmetry and the interference of electron waves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Lodder , Yu. V. Nazarov

Andreev bound states with opposite phase-inversion asymmetries are observed in local and non-local tunneling spectra at the two ends of a superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor planar Josephson junction in the presence of a…

Recently, Andreev bound states in iron pnictide have been proposed as an experimental probe to detect the relative minus sign in the $s_\pm$-wave pairing. While previous theoretical investigations demonstrated the feasibility of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Wen-Min Huang , Hsiu-Hau Lin