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The proximity effect is a central feature of superconducting junctions as it underlies many important applications in devices and can be exploited in the design of new systems with novel quantum functionality. Recently, exotic proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-11 Jungdae Kim , Victor Chua , Gregory A. Fiete , Hyoungdo Nam , A. H. MacDonald , Chih-Kang Shih

We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and its inverse effect in dice lattice flat band model by considering Josephson junction with an s-wave pairing in the superconducting leads. Using self-consistent tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Somayeh Ahmadkhani , Mir Vahid Hosseini

We describe the proximity effect in a short disordered metallic junction between three superconducting leads. Andreev bound states in the multi-terminal junction may cross the Fermi level. We reveal that for a quasi-continuous metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 C. Padurariu , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , R. Mélin , D. Feinberg , T. Martin , Yu. V. Nazarov

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

In multi-band metals quasi-particles arising from different atomic orbitals coexist at a common Fermi surface. Superconductivity in these materials may appear due to interactions within a band (intra-band) or among the distinct metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Aline Ramires , Mucio A. Continentino

A short introduction to the theory of matrix quasiclassical Green's functions is given and possible applications of this theory to transport properties of mesoscopic superconducting-normal metal (S/N) structures are considered. We discuss a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Volkov , V. V. Pavlovskii

We theoretically study the local density of states in superconducting proximity structure where two superconducting terminals are attached to a side surface of a normal-metal wire. Using the quasiclassical Green's function method, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Alexander A. Golubov , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

Investigating the microscopic details of the proximity effect is crucial for both key experimental applications and fundamental inquiries into nanoscale devices featuring superconducting elements. In this work, we develop a framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Siddhant Midha , Roshni Singh , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We study the proximity effect in good contacts between normal metals and high Tc (d-wave) superconductors. We present theoretical results for the spatially dependent order parameter and local density of states, including effects of impurity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Lofwander

In this letter, we have studied the effects of proximity of a superconductor to a normal metal. The system, represented by a bilayer attractive Hubbard model, is investigated using layer-dynamical mean field theory and iterated perturbation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-03 Naushad Ahmad Kamar , N. S. Vidhyadhiraja

Ballistic Josephson junctions are studied in the presence of a spin-splitting field and spin-orbit coupling. A generic expression for the quasi-classical Green's function is obtained and with its help we analyze several aspects of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-27 François Konschelle , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We combine density functional theory and scanning tunneling microscopy to study the proximity effects between a bulk Ru(0001) superconductor and an atomically thin overlayer of Co. We have identified that the Co monolayer can grow in two…

Superconducting heterostructures with spin-active materials have emerged as promising platforms for engineering topological superconductors featuring Majorana bound states at surfaces, edges and vortices. Here we present a method for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-09 Jens Michelsen , Roland Grein

We calculate the local density of states (LDOS) of a superconductor-normal metal sandwich at arbitrary impurity concentration. The presence of the superconductor induces a gap in the normal metal spectrum that is proportional to the inverse…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Pilgram , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

Recent experiments have demonstrated the nonequilibrium control of the supercurrent through diffusive phase-coherent normal-metal weak links. The experimental results have been accurately described by the quasiclassical Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Tero T. Heikkilä , Jani Särkkä , Frank K. Wilhelm

Three-terminal superconductor (S) - normal metal (N) - superconductor (S) Josephson junctions are investigated. In a geometry where a T-shape normal metal is connected to three superconducting reservoirs, new sub-gap structures appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Andreas H. Pfeffer , Jean Eudes Duvauchelle , Hervé Courtois , Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg , François Lefloch

We study the proximity effect in hybrid structures consisting of superconductor and ferromagnetic insulator separated by a normal diffusive metal (S/N/FI structures). These stuctures were proposed to realize the absolute spin-valve effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Yu. V. Nazarov

We describe the superconducting proximity effect taking place in a contact between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a diffusive normal/ferromagnetic metal within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. By solving numerically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-26 Gaetano Annunziata , Dirk Manske , Jacob Linder

For an s-wave superconductor/semiconductor/ferromagnetic-insulator structure, the proximity effect can induce the energy gap in the semiconductor rather than the superconducting pair potential of its microscope Hamiltonian. As a result, it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-22 Zhongwen Xing , Mei Liu