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The transition-metal dichalcogenides featuring Ising spin-orbit coupling in so-called Ising superconductors offer a unique system to study the interplay of singlet and triplet superconductivity. The presence of high critical fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Sourabh Patil , Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig

A Josephson junction, formed between two phase-biased superconductors and a normal metal, hosts a discrete spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABS). In this paper, we develop a theory for long ballistic Andreev interferometers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Régis Mélin , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Morteza Kayyalha

We study the current driven by an applied voltage as a function of time through the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model when coupled to two normal or superconducting reservoirs. For normal leads, in the strong coupling limit and for small bias, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-10 Gianluca Francica , Marco Uguccioni , Luca Dell'Anna

We study theoretically the electron transport in a 1D conductor adiabatically connected to a superconducting and normal metal leads. In the case of non-interacting we show that ac voltage applied along with dc voltage modifies I-V curve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. P. Aseev , S. N. Artemenko

In this work, we investigate the spectra in an Aharonov-Bohm quantum-ring interferometer forming a Josephson junction between two topological superconductors (TSC) nanowires. The TSCs host Majorana bound states at their edges, and both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 F. G. Medina , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We consider non-local transport in a system with one superconducting and two normal metal terminals. Electron focusing by weak perpendicular magnetic fields is shown to tune the ratio between crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Håvard Haugen , Arne Brataas , Xavier Waintal , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study subgap transport from a superconductor through a double quantum dot with large on-site Coulomb repulsion to two normal leads. Non-local superconducting correlations in the double dot are induced by the proximity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 James Eldridge , Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

It has been found experimentally that when dc current is passed through a circuit consisting of two superconductors connected in parallel and reaches its critical value in one of the circuit branches the current in the branches undergoes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 S. I. Bondarenko , V. P. Koverya , A. V. Krevsun , N. M. Levchenko , A. A. Shablo

It is shown that the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions result in phase shifts of Andreev-reflected holes in disordered topological insulator, or normal Rashba spin-orbit-coupled wires, which are in a contact with an s-wave superconductor.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-01 A. G. Mal'shukov

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

The non-equilibrium properties of a driven quasi-one dimensional superconducting ring subjected to a constant electromotive force ({\it emf}) is studied. The {\it emf} accelerates the superconducting electrons until the critical current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Mikko Karttunen , K. R. Elder , Martin B. Tarlie , Martin Grant

For certain orientations of Josephson junctions between two p_x-wave or two d-wave superconductors, the subgap Andreev bound states produce a 4pi-periodic relation between the Josephson current I and the phase difference phi: I ~…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyok-Jon Kwon , K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

We report on some unusual behavior of the measured current-voltage characteristics (CVC) in artificially prepared two-dimensional unshunted array of overdamped Nb-AlO_x-Nb Josephson junctions. The obtained nonlinear CVC are found to exhibit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-27 S. Sergeenkov , V. A. G. Rivera , E. Marega , F. M. Araujo-Moreira

We report on electronic transport properties of mesoscopic superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structures. Two ferromagnetic iron leads form planar tunnel contacts to a superconducting aluminum wire, where the distance of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in a rich variety of systems, has shown that nonreciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge when both space- and time-inversion symmetries are broken. In…

We theoretically study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in a biased three-terminal Josephson junction. We demonstrate that the direct current flowing through the junction consists of supercurrent components when the bias voltages are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. P. Nowak , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

We study operation of a new device, the superconducting differential double contour interferometer (DDCI), in application for the ultra sensitive detection of magnetic flux and for digital read out of the state of the superconducting flux…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-22 V. L. Gurtovoi , V. N. Antonov , A. V. Nikulov , R. Shaikhaidarov , V. A. Tulin

The dynamic conductance of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ is measured by point-contact spectroscopy as a function of temperature from 60 K down to 400 mK. The contact between the gold tip and the single-crystal is shown to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 W. K. Park , L. H. Greene , J. L. Sarrao , J. D. Thompson

It is shown that the low energy spectrum of mesoscopic superconductors coupled by Josephson interaction can be probed by two-electron tunneling from a normal electrode. The Andreev reflection in the NS junction of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , L. I. Glazman , Gerd Schoen

A theory of the frequency dependence of the interplane conductivity of a strongly anisotropic superconductor is presented. The form of the conductivity is shown to be a sensitive probe of the strength of quantum and thermal fluctuations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 L. B. Ioffe , A. J. Millis