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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

Combining the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering matrices with Andreev approximation, we investigated the spin-triplet Andreev reflection (AR) spectra for the interface between half-metallic ferromagnet Co$_{2}$MnSi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Ling Tang

We realized point contact spectroscopy experiment on ferromagnet/superconductor bilayers. Differential conductance curves show several features that we explained within Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism considering the presence of two…

We calculate the conductance of a junction between a disordered superconductor and a very strong half-metallic ferromagnet admitting electrons with only one spin projection. A usual mechanism of Andreev reflection is strongly suppressed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 M. E. Ismagambetov , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigel'man

We have measured the non-local resistance of aluminum-iron spin-valve structures fabricated by e-beam lithography and shadow evaporation. The sample geometry consists of an aluminum bar with two or more ferromagnetic wires forming point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Beckmann , H. B. Weber , H. v. Löhneysen

The Andreev reflection of narrow ferromagnet/superconductor point contacts is theoretically studied. We show that the conductance quantization depends on whether the contact region is superconducting or ferromagnetic as well as on the…

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

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

We study Andreev reflection (AR) tunneling through a quantum dot (QD) connected to a ferromagnet and a superconductor, in which the intradot spin-flip interaction is included. By using the nonequibrium-Green-function method, the formula of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiufeng Cao , Yaoming Shi , Xiaolong Song , Shiping Zhou , Hao Chen

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

We study the transport properties of a voltage biased contact between two spin-split superconductors separated by an insulating barrier of arbitrary transparency. At low transparency, the contribution of multiple Andreev reflections leads…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Bo Lu , Pablo Burset , Yukio Tanaka

We analyze the change in the resistance of a junction between a diffusive ferromagnetic (F) wire and normal metal electrode, due to the onset of superconductivity (S) in the latter and a double Andreev scattering process leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir I. Fal'ko , A. F. Volkov , C. Lambert

The Andreev reflection probability for a ferromagnet/isolator/superconductor (FIS) contact at the arbitrary spin-dependent amplitudes of the electron waves transmitted through and reflected from the potential barrier is found. It is shown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Vodopyanov

Point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy is used to measure the spin polarization of metals but analysis of the spectra has encountered a number of serious challenges, one of which is the difficulty to distinguish the effects of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Elina Tuuli , Kurt Gloos

We present a description of spin-polarized transport in mesoscopic ferromagnet-superconductor (F/S) systems, where the transport is diffusive, and the interfaces are transparent. It is shown that the spin reversal associated with Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees , B. H. Hoving , A. T. Filip , T. M. Klapwijk

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

The phenomenon of crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is known to play a key role in non-local electron transport across three-terminal normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) devices. Here we review our general theory of non-local charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-09 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the Andreev reflection (AR) in a three terminal mesoscopic hybrid system, in which two ferromagnets (F$_1$ and F$_2$) are coupled to a superconductor (S) through a quantum dot (QD). By using non-equilibrium Green function, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

We report an extensive theoretical analysis of point-contact Andreev reflection data available in literature on ferromagnetic CrO$_2$. We find that the spectra can be well understood within a model of fully spin-polarized bands in CrO$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-24 Tomas Lofwander , Roland Grein , Matthias Eschrig

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We study the subgap transport through a ferromagnet/Ising superconductor/ferromagnet (F/ISC/F) junction by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. It is found that the crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) and local Andreev reflection (LAR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun , Qiang Cheng