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We discuss very low temperature experiments on superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Normal metal - Insulator - Superconductor junction. We investigate with a high resolution the differential conductance of the micro-cooler as well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Sukumar Rajauria , Philippe Gandit , F. W. J. Hekking , Bernard Pannetier , Hervé Courtois

We study coherent quantum transport through a superconducting film connected to normal-metal electrodes. Simple expressions for the differential conductance and the local density of states are obtained in the clean limit and for transparent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bozovic , Z. Pajovic , Z. Radovic

We present an experimental study of the diffusive transport in a normal metal near a superconducting interface, showing the re-entrance of the metallic conductance at very low temperature. This new mesoscopic regime comes in when the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Charlat , H. Courtois , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , A. F. Volkov , B. Pannetier

The Andreev current and the subgap conductance in a superconductor/ insulator/ ferromagnet (SIF) structure in the presence of a small spin-splitting field show novel interesting features (A. Ozaeta et al., Phys. Rev. B 86, 060509(R), 2012).…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-16 A. S. Vasenko , A. Ozaeta , S. Kawabata , F. W. J. Hekking , F. S. Bergeret

We calculate electronic energy transport in inhomogeneous superconductors using a fully self-consistent non-equilibrium quasiclassical Keldysh approach. We develop a general theory and apply it a superconductor with an order parameter that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-10 Caroline Richard , Anton B. Vorontsov

We discuss how phase coherence manifests in the heat transport through superconducting single and multichannel Josephson junctions in time dependent situations. We consider the heat current driven through the junction by a temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-02 P. Virtanen , F. Giazotto

The electron transport though ferromagnetic metal-superconducting hybrid devices is considered in the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the quasiclassical approximation. Attention if focused on the limit in which the exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We investigate electron transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and the edge of a two-dimensional semimetal, realized in a 20~nm wide HgTe quantum well. Experimentally, we observe that typical behavior of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 A. Kononov , S. V. Egorov , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , E. V. Deviatov

Coherent charge transport along ballistic paths can be introduced into graphene by Andreev reflection, for which an electron reflects from a superconducting contact as a hole, while a Cooper pair is transmitted. We use a liquid-helium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Bhandari , G. -H. Lee , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , R. M. Westervelt

I discuss thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead in the presence of Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. I will focus on conductance, thermal conductance, thermopower and related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Mariusz Krawiec

We develop a theory of thermal transport of weakly interacting electrons in quantum wires. Unlike higher-dimensional systems, a one-dimensional electron gas requires three-particle collisions for energy relaxation. The fastest relaxation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alex Levchenko , Tobias Micklitz , Zoran Ristivojevic , K. A. Matveev

Nonreciprocal transport phenomena indicate that the forward and backward flows differ, and are attributed to broken inversion symmetry. In this paper, we study the nonreciprocity of a thermal and thermoelectric transport of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ryota Nakai , Naoto Nagaosa

The dissipative component of electron transport through the doubly connected SNS Andreev interferometer indium (S)-aluminium (N)-indium (S) has been studied. Within helium temperature range, the conductance of the individual sections of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Chiang , O. G. Shevchenko

We study heat transport in a gas of one-dimensional fermions in the presence of a small temperature gradient. At temperatures well below the Fermi energy there are two types of relaxation processes in this system, with dramatically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 K. A. Matveev , Zoran Ristivojevic

We have studied hybrid superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Superconductor-Insulator-Normal metal tunnel junction. Under subgap conditions, the Andreev current is found to dominate the single-particle tunnel current. We show that…

Andreev interferometers, normal metal wires coupled to superconducting loops, display phase coherent changes as the magnetic flux through the superconducting loops is altered. Properties such as the electronic and thermal conductance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Cadden-Zimansky , Z. Jiang , V. Chandrasekhar

The transport through a metal-superconductor interface is governed by a special charge conversion process, the Andreev reflection, where each incident electron drags another electron with itself to form a Cooper pair. At the normal side a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-25 A. Geresdi , A. Halbritter , G. Mihály

We study the dynamical thermal conductivity of the Kitaev spin model on a two-leg ladder. In contrast to conventional integrable one-dimensional spin systems, we show that heat transport is completely dissipative. This is a direct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Alexandros Metavitsiadis , Wolfram Brenig

We report measurements of thermopower oscillations $vs$ magnetic field in a diffusive Andreev interferometer. Upon the increase of the dc current applied to the heater electrodes, the amplitude of these oscillations first increases then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Parsons , I. A. Sosnin , V. T. Petrashov

Giant oscillations of the conductance of a superconductor - ferromagnet - superconductor Andreev interferometer are predicted. The effect is due to the resonant transmission of normal electrons through Andreev levels when the voltage $V$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kadigrobov , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , Z. Ivanov , T. Claeson