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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

Crossed conductance in hybrid Ferromagnet / Superconductor / Ferromagnet (FSF) structures results from the competition between normal transmission and Andreev reflection channels. Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) and elastic cotunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin , D. Feinberg

A theory of spin polarized tunneling spectroscopy based on a scattering theory is given for tunneling junctions between ferromagnets and d-wave superconductors. The spin filtering effect of an exchange field in the insulator is also…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kashiwaya , Y. Tanaka , N. Yoshida , M. R. Beasley

A quantum theory of the spin-dependent scattering of semiconductor electrons by a Schottky barrier at an interface with a ferromagnet is presented. The reflection of unpolarized non-equilibrium carriers produces spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

With the aid of the quasiclassical Eilenberger formalism we develop a theory of non-local electron transport across three-terminal ballistic normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) devices with spin-active NS interfaces. The phenomenon of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-21 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

A recent paper of Chen et al. claims to have derived an allegedly previously unavailable "unified" Andreev Reflection (AR) formalism for an arbitrary spin polarization P that recovers earlier results as its special limits. In this Comment…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-24 M. Eschrig , A. A. Golubov , I. I. Mazin , B. Nadgorny , Y. Tanaka , O. T. Valls , Igor Zutic

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

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon that holds significant implications for spintronics and superconducting devices. However, its experimental detection and enhancement remain challenging.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Abhiram Soori

We theoretically investigate charge transport in a junction between a conventional superconductor and a V$_2$O-based altermagnet exhibiting distinctive spin-split quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surfaces. The altermagnet is described by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-15 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

Epitaxially grown intermetallic RFe2 (R = Dy, Er, Y) thin films have been studied by point contact Andreev reflection. Spin polarization values were extracted by fitting normalized conductance curves for mechanical Nb/RFe2 point contacts,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-06 C. Morrison , D. Wang , G. J. Bowden , R. C. C. Ward , P. A. J. de Groot

We examine the appearance of a spontaneous bulk spin current in a triplet superconductor in contact with a metallic ferromagnet. The spin current results from the spin-flip of Cooper pairs upon reflection from the interface with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 P. M. R. Brydon

Using a generalized wave matching method we solve the full scattering problem for quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) - superconductor (SC) - QSHI junctions. We find that for systems narrow enough so that the bulk states in the SC part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 R. W. Reinthaler , P. Recher , E. M. Hankiewicz

We investigated the transport properties in a normal metal/ferromagnet/normal metal/superconductor junction based on semi-Dirac materials with inverted energy gap. With a scattering matrix approach, we show that the electron transport in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-03 Yupeng Huang , R. Shen

We study theoretically the differential conductance at a junction between a time reversal symmetry broken spin orbit coupled system with a tunable band gap and a superconductor. We look for spin-dependent Andreev reflection (i.e, sub-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Joanna Hutchinson , Arijit Kundu

We investigate the applicability of spin polarization measurements using Andreev reflection in a point contact geometry in heavily doped dilute magnetic semiconductors, such as (Ga,Mn)As. While we observe conventional Andreev reflection in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 R. P. Panguluri , K. C. Ku , T. Wojtowicz , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller , N. Samarth , B. Nadgorny

We report tunable crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) in a superconductor sandwiched between two antiferromagnetic layers. We consider recent examples of two-dimensional magnets with hexagonal lattices, where gate voltages control the carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-02 Martin F. Jakobsen , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We have investigated point contacts between a superconductor (Nb, AuIn2) and a normal metal (ferromagnetic Co, non-magnetic Cu). The observed Andreev-reflection spectra were analyzed using the modified BTK theory including spin-polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elina Tuuli , Kurt Gloos

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann

Andreev reflection in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions is derived in a regime in which Zeeman splitting dominates the response of the superconductor to an applied magnetic field. Spin-up and spin-down Andreev reflections are shown to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Mélin

In tunneling spectroscopy studies of ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) junctions, the effects of spin polarization, Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions, and interfacial resistance play a crucial role. We study the low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls