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We introduce a mathematical setup for charge transport in quantum pump connected to a number of external leads. It is proved that under rather general assumption on the Hamiltonian describing the system, in the adiabatic limit, the current…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Avron , A. Elgart , G. M. Graf , L. Sadun , K. Schnee

A study is presented concerning the influence of flicker noise in the junction transparency on coherent transport in Andreev states. The amount of dephasing is estimated for a microwave-activated quantum interferometer. Possibilities of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 N. I. Lundin , Y. M. Galperin

Using the modified perturbation theory, we theoretically study the nonequilibrium Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads (N-QD-S), which is strongly influenced by the Kondo and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We studied the effects of superconducting quantum correlations in a system consisting of two quantum dots, two normal leads, and a superconductor. Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions method, we analyzed the transmission, density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 A. González I. , A. M. Calle , M. Pacheco , E. C. Siqueira , Pedro A. Orellana

We theoretically propose the laser-induced Andreev reflection between two-component Fermi superfluid and normal states via spatially-uniform Rabi couplings. By analyzing the tunneling current between the superfluid and normal states up to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-01 Tingyu Zhang , Hiroyuki Tajima , Yuta Sekino , Shun Uchino , Haozhao Liang

We investigate adiabatic charge pumping in disordered system in one dimension with open and closed boundary conditions. In contrast to the Thouless charge pumping, the system has no gap even though all the states are localized, i.e., strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Chyh-Hong Chern , Shigeki Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the crossed Andreev effects in two-dimensional conductor/superconductor hybrid systems under a perpendicular magnetic field. Both a graphene/superconductor hybrid system and an electron gas/superconductor one are considered. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Zhe Hou , Yanxia Xing , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We study the subgap transport properties of a small capacitance normal metal-superconductor tunnel junction coupled to an external electromagnetic environment. Mesoscopic interference between the electrons in the normal metal strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrea Huck , F. W. J. Hekking , Bernhard Kramer

We measure the excitation spectrum of a superconducting atomic contact. In addition to the usual continuum above the superconducting gap, the single particle excitation spectrum contains discrete, spin-degenerate Andreev levels inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 L. Bretheau , C. O. Girit , C. Urbina , D. Esteve , H. Pothier

We consider the adiabatic charge transport through zero-dimensional mesoscopic sample (quantum dot) caused by two periodically changing external perturbations. Both the magnitude and the sign of the transmitted charge are extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. Shutenko , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

We analyze the quantum interference effects appearing in the charge current through the double quantum dots coupled in T-shape configuration to an isotropic superconductor and metallic lead. Owing to proximity effect the quantum dots…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 J. Baranski , T. Domanski

Andreev reflection between a normal metal and a superconductor whose order parameter exhibits quantum phase fluctuations is examined. The approach chosen is non perturbative in the tunneling Hamiltonian and enables to probe the whole range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Devillard , R. Guyon , T. Martin , I. Safi , B. K. Chakraverty

We consider the conductance of an Andreev interferometer, i.e., a hybrid structure where a dissipative current flows through a mesoscopic normal (N) sample in contact with two superconducting (S) "mirrors". Giant conductance oscillations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 H. A. Blom , A. Kadigrobov , A. M. Zagoskin , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

Quantum adiabatic pumping of charge and spin between two reservoirs (leads) has recently been demonstrated in nanoscale electronic devices. Pumping occurs when two or more system parameters are varied in a cyclic manner and sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

We theoretically investigate the charge transport in a normal metal/normal metal/superconductor junction based on semi-Dirac materials. It is shown that off-resonant circularly polarized light applied to the central normal region induces an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 W. Zeng

In this work we uncover an interesting quantum plateau behavior for the Andreev reflection between a one-dimensional quantum wire and superconductor. The quantum plateau is achieved by properly tuning the interplay of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

Particle-hole symmetry of the Bogoliubov-de~Gennes Hamiltonian is widely assumed to enforce bias-symmetric transport at superconducting interfaces. We show that this expectation fails generically for interfaces with finite spatial extent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-17 Vishal Tripathi , Goutam Sheet

We study the influence of surface Andreev bound states in d-wave superconductors on the Bean-Livingston surface barrier for entry of a vortex line into a strongly type-II superconductor. Starting from Eilenberger theory we derive a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-01-23 C. Iniotakis , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

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

We propose a new type of interferometry, based on geometric phases accumulated by a periodically driven two-level system undergoing multiple Landau-Zener transitions. As a specific example, we study its implementation in a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 S. Gasparinetti , P. Solinas , J. P. Pekola