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We present an investigation of the energy dependence of the full charge counting statistics in diffusive normal-insulating-normal-insulating-superconducting junctions. It is found that the current in general is transported via a correlated…

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Single atom junctions between superconducting niobium leads are produced using the Mechanically Controllable Break Junction technique. The current-voltage characteristics of these junctions are analysed using an exact formulation for a…

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We calculate the probability distribution of the Andreev reflection eigenvalues R_n at the Fermi level in the circular ensemble of random-matrix theory. Without spin-rotation symmetry, the statistics of the electrical conductance G depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

Atomic quantum point contacts accommodate a small number of conduction channels. Their number N and transmission coefficients {T_n} can be determined by analyzing the subgap structure due to multiple Andreev reflections in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Scheer , J. C. Cuevas , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martin-Rodero , P. Joyez , M. H. Devoret , D. Esteve , C. Urbina

We present a general technique to obtain the zero temperature full counting statistics of charge transfer in interacting impurity models out of equilibrium from time-dependent simulations on a lattice. We demonstrate the technique with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-23 Sam T. Carr , Dmitry A. Bagrets , Peter Schmitteckert

We investigate conductances and current correlations in a system consisting of a normal multichannel conductor connected to one superconducting and two ferromagnetic electrodes. For antiparallel orientation of the ferromagnet polarizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Peter Samuelsson , Markus Buttiker

We provide a direct proof of two-electron Andreev transitions in a superconductor - normal metal tunnel junction by detecting them in a real-time electron counting experiment. Our results are consistent with ballistic Andreev transport with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 V. F. Maisi , O. -P. Saira , Yu. A. Pashkin , J. S. Tsai , D. V. Averin , J. P. Pekola

We study the statistics of charge transport in a mesoscopic three-terminal device with one superconducting terminal and two normal-metal terminals. We calculate the full distribution of transmitted charges into the two symmetrically biased…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Boerlin , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

We use the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory for electronic transport to calculate the current cross-correlations in a voltage-biased three-terminal junction with all superconducting leads. At low bias voltage, when charge transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

The statistics of charge transport across a tunnel junction with energy-dependent scattering is investigated. A model with quadratic dispersion relation is discussed in general and, independently, in the two limiting cases of a large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vincent Beaud , Gian Michele Graf , Andrei V. Lebedev , Gordey B. Lesovik

We use a semiclassical approach for analysing the tunneling transport through a normal conductor in contact with superconducting mirrors. Our analysis of the electron-hole propagation along semiclassical trajectories shows that resonant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kadigrobov , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We study the full probability distribution of the charge transmitted through a mesoscopic diffusive conductor during a measurement time T. We have considered a semi-classical model, with an exclusion principle in a discretized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. -E. Roche , B. Doucot

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

We study the full counting statistics for the transmission of two identical particles with positive or negative symmetry under exchange for the situation where the scattering depends on energy. We find that, besides the expected sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 F. Hassler , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

We study the full-counting statistics of charges transmitted through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to a local Einstein phonon which causes fluctuations in the dot energy. An analytic expression for the cumulant generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Ueda , A. Aharony

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 study the current statistics in normal diffusive conductors in contact with a superconductor. Using an extension of the Keldysh Green's function method we are able to find the full distribution of charge transfers for all temperatures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

Andreev reflection is a smart tool to investigate the spin polarisation P of the current through point contacts between a superconductor and a ferromagnet. We compare different models to extract P from experimental data and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Bouvron , M. Stokmaier , M. Marz , G. Goll

A theory is presented for the photodetection statistics of radiation produced by current fluctuations in a phase-coherent conductor. Deviations are found from the Poisson statistics that would result from a classical current. For detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , H. Schomerus